There’s a big difference between infinite scrolling content that’s using algorithms to specifically keep you scrolling and how Lemmy does it. On Lemmy that’s a you problem not a capitalism problem.
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mrdown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lemmy has infinite scrolling too so if lemmy get big it will have the same legal issue
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
mrdown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It is subjective. I personally spend more time on non algorithmic feed than algorithm one. It is boring to keep seeing the same time of content most of the time
yes_this_time@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A social media’s algorithm would optimize for engagement not content similarity.
mrdown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So why when i interact with only niche content, the algotithms still show me only popular content?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nonsense.
5gruel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well crafted counter argument
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Not really, i have hit the limit 2 3 times. Maybe its a voyager feature but it definitely has a limit
sonofearth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It can be turned off
Oaksey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not always infinite. If you set it to be the top posts for the last 12 hours for example, it isn’t that hard to get to the end, not like automatically chosen posts follow on or are inserted into that feed.
morto@piefed.social 2 months ago
Just some guis/apps, and it’s mostly optional
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t think Lemmy (or any text based platform) really fits the bill
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Lemmy has a ton of media tho, its not entirely text based.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 months ago
But the algorithm isn’t extremely personalized or optimized towards “engagement”. In fact the only fediverse platform that comes close is Loops, and even that is light-years away from the psychological manipulation that goes into Tiktok algorithms.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
100% agreed, my only quibble was calling Lemmy a text based site.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait your app isn’t like this?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Nope. I turned off infinite scroll in the settings. I use the Voyager app, which paginates the feed when configured to do so.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It has infinite scroll. It’s not highly personalized like tiktok, it has auto play but there’s FAR more text posts than videos, and the push notifications are far less extreme (is there even a setting to get push notifications for every upvote, like tiktok enables automatically?). Lemmy really isn’t anything like tiktok.
M137@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you miss the “autoplay and highly personalised recommender system”? Those are the two big major differences and what makes people so addicted to tiktok etc. in a much worse way than forums in all forms (like reddit and lemmy). Reddit and Lemmy doesn’t have any thing that curates what you see based on your habits, that’s done by yourself or not at all.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
But lemmy indeed triggers addictive behaviours on me… But same does any news app….
Great way to flee from regional reality (Doing work, being social, talk to people, ho for a walk with the dog, do housekeeping, etc.)
Everything gets delayed when I am on here, but still, Iam writing this 🙃
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 month ago
I’m pretty sure Reddit curates the content of r/popular based on your browser history.
mrdown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t think the EU would ignore it if it was only infinite scroll
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you sure? They have been ignoring virtually everything with infinite scrolling. TikTok is the extremely rare exception where they actually address it.