I guess reddit Apocalypse was another one.
Pushing users into paranoia about tracking and privacy is a brilliant way to reduce server load from users that are not producing value on a platform
Submitted 3 weeks ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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limerod@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
MITM0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Define value ?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the m really fuckijg stupid. ELI5?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
People who love privacy won’t be seeing adverts anyway because they’ll block them, get them off the platform to reduce server load (thus reducing costs) and only keep the users that will generate revenues.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The users who generate revenue are those who post. Someone who posts 1k a day but watches no ads is far more valuable than someone who watches 1k ads a day but never posts.
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Placing privacy focused content into a user’s suggested feed is likely intentional. Why would any platform actively promote content that is opposed to the company’s business model. It seems rather nonsense for a place like YouTube to promote this type of content, yet they do. Perhaps that is intentional and purposeful. This kind of abstract and indirect problem solving is the kind of thing I am good at in a job if I am given objectives and time to mull over solutions.
Most humans display some kinds of paranoia. It is easy to spin privacy as a disproportionate evil because of the uncertainty of scope and motives involved. The act of suggesting a potential threat in the periphery a few times is enough to get most people to eventually engage with that content. It would be easy and effective to use this suggestive mechanism to push people off of a platform. This pattern loosely fits my experience. I bet it fits with others too. These platforms and ad companies have been hiring the best and brightest psych majors for a decade. All of that talent is used for something profitable.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 weeks ago
Great in principle, lacking on delivery imo.
First thing you could mention is that youre talking about platforms not people. Especially the headline reads very different for people here I guess.
That said, youtube doesnt promote what keeps you on the platform, they have other systems for that and for value as well.
They promote what makes them money. Welcome to late stage capitalism. There already are a lot of alternative platforms like means, peertuve and so on. If you view them and talk about them they will grow.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
ELI5 means they wanted the simplified version. The simplified version is that privacy focused individuals don’t bring revenues to platforms like Reddit so for these platforms it’s a good idea to get rid of these users to reduce costs and to only keep the users who bring in revenues.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i’m pretty sure i agree with you, but it took me far too long to understand what you’re saying. you’ve got a great vocabulary. your intended audience probably doesn’t.
resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Joke’s on you, Mark. I didn’t delete my Facebook account, just changed everything to lies.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
+1: Thought Provoking
chatroom@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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sturlabragason@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is not the first great insight I’ve seen from SatansMaggotyCumFart.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In all these years I’ve never understood this meme and don’t get most of the jokes. My brain must not work the right way for it.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This misses OP’s point. This is why those people would not want to be on reddit, and exactly why Reddit would not want them either.