Comment on TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours agoThere’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.
mrdown@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 11 hours ago
A social media’s algorithm would optimize for engagement not content similarity.
mrdown@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
So why when i interact with only niche content, the algotithms still show me only popular content?
yes_this_time@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
On lemmy do you mean? It doesn’t have personalized recommendation algorithms as far as I know or any content similarity algorithms. I think it’s just a simple popularity by newness algorithm.
To clarify, I meant corporate social media companies will target engagement, and they will use personalized algos (not necessarily down to a user, could be group of similar users).
So for example if a user looks at some niche wood working content for example, they may mix in popular content that drives emotional response or is entertaining if that keeps people on the platform longer.
That’s what I’m saying, it’s not about content similarity necessarily, it’s about showing whatever drives engagement / time on platform.
When you have a lot of user data, and a lot of content meta data, you can do that very well. To the point where you can trigger addictive behaviors. That’s the issue with tiktok - but also other social media companies to lesser degrees