Comment on PC upgrade woes
Man_kind@sh.itjust.works 17 hours agoIts evwr since Facebook. Facebook destroyed the world. And people are still using meta.
Comment on PC upgrade woes
Man_kind@sh.itjust.works 17 hours agoIts evwr since Facebook. Facebook destroyed the world. And people are still using meta.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
That’s the problem, too many real humans on Facebook. With more RAM Zuck can achieve its goal of an ideal community of bots endlessly commenting on their own material. A glorious utopia powered by silicon rather than carbon, and like Zuck itself, feigning the existence of emotions it cannot comprehend. Soulless lucidity.
Man_kind@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Meta is a brainwash company. Its platforms are weapons.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
I’d argue the opposite. Meta caters to the kinds of people that want to believe in a specific worldview. It didn’t brainwash people into becoming bigots, racists, misogynists, fascists, and haters, it just gave them a platform where they could say things in a curated social circle and not suffer the consequences that might occur if they said it in public. Gradually they realized there were a lot like them in the world and networked. The worst of them banded together and became real world threats like Proud Boys and Oathkeepers, but the vast majority still won’t take the risk and don’t do anything other than vote for candidates who promise to make their online fantasy a real one. New medium, same bigotry that has always existed in America. If social media disappeared today it wouldn’t prevent haters from hating, it would at best simmer it until they found a new means of connecting because now they know their vitriol is shared by many.
Man_kind@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
You’re wrong. Many people are impressionable. Some are not. Those that are, the algorithm knows who they are. Especially young people. So it shows them things to brainwash them with. Make them think some groups are bad people, by what they show them. The people they know this won’t work with, they just show them what they want to see, and let that bounce around their echo chamber.
But they wont let certain things be seen by the people they are successfully brainwashing.
Musk didnt spend 44 billion to buy twitter for no reason. Paramount isn’t in a mountain of debt because brainwashing doesnt work.
Everyone on instagram is being brainwashed. But also being shown what they want to see, and given the illusion they are seeing everything they want to see. Its a trick. Its effective. People are fucking stupid to use the psyops weapons maga controls.