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- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
I don’t think social media is inherently evil, but profit motive creeps into people’s private lives and fundamentally corrupts the natural premise of social connection.
Social media is huge money, all through advertising. Advertising will use anything it can to manipulate an audience’s behavior, that’s what it exists for in terms of research and how organizations decide what ads to run and where: net engagement and sales figures. Whether to sell you a product or a political idea, it is most effective when you don’t realize you’re being advertised to. This encourages ad firms and political campaigns to manipulate user psychology to get the most meaningful results they can.
And while the fediverse is probably more resistant to advertising than a centrally controlled system, there is nothing stopping well crafted astroturfing in this space. Political astroturfing in particular doesn’t generally look like what someone expects an ad to look like because of its ubiquitous nature and its natural network effects.
- Comment on Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use 3 weeks ago:
Yeah you’re correct the payments were stopped late last year but was on the radar for a couple years. It’s why the sudden sketchy rush for other sources of income so they can keep going as normal.
It’s been set up to fail. That income is the only thing that justified such an insane pay package for their c-suite in the first place, the current form of Mozilla is a direct result of all that cash. It’s supposed to be a nonprofit and now they’re basically in withdrawal because they cannot afford their insane"normal tech company leadership" salaries.
Idk how Mozilla survives this tbh, the leadership pay the biggest liability killing the company and they have to willingly give it up before the company goes bankrupt or becomes another ad machine.
I would really love for them to drop pocket and all their other stupid shit and just make a browser like they used to. Even just that is a huge undertaking these days though, and that is because of Google’s ability to basically dictate web standards. They strung Mozilla along as a pet “look we’re not a monopoly” competitor while continuously raising the bar to entry for any competition. I think the antitrust case should have gone after web standards to allow for competition rather than basically killing off the only real competitor, but that would have been harder to do I guess.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 3 weeks ago:
And then God said:
“Lol. Lmao”
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 3 weeks ago:
Any time now. Or in the past 10,000 years would be great
- Comment on Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use 3 weeks ago:
Most of their income comes directly from Google, the incumbent browser monopoly. I’m full tin foil hat on this one, Google is pulling the strings here.
- Comment on Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use 4 weeks ago:
Idk the CEOs $6mil salary sounds more like malice to me
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
? It’s a well established strategy. I’m not speculating, this is how social media marketing works. You can find all sorts of resources on how marketers strategize about these things.
old.reddit.com/…/commenting_as_a_social_media_str…
This has gotten quite pedantic but being paid is not a requirement, just is most often how it’s done:
Advertising (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertising) 1: the action of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcements
I’m not trying to tell you how to post, genuine recommendations are the only form of advertising I respect. But it is advertising and companies have every incentive to astroturf that.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I meant nothing towards anyone in particular, just mostly want to point out the strong likelihood companies are posting here. It’s a when, not an if. The bigger Lemmy gets the more money there is to be made here.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
Well sure it is. I mean nonpaid advertising is the best kind for everyone since it’s likely to actually be honest and actually listened to but it’s not always easy to tell from some comments what their true motivations are. Thus the existence of astroturfing.
Kagi probably has a social media manager or hires a marketing agency (as most companies do) and their time would be well spent posting on Lemmy (and other sites) about Kagi but in as organically of a way as possible since we’re all pretty ad averse here. I mean, it’s possible Kagi specifically isn’t doing it, but it is a matter of when, not if, companies start doing that here.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
I tend to be suspicious of any brand name dropping. It’s where most reddit advertising happens too.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
Not trying to say there is no organic discussion, but I would be shocked if they were ignoring this avenue for getting the word out. It’s basically free advertising and advertising is generally expensive.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
I mean the idea is to appear organic, it’s not very effective advertising otherwise. It’s free real estate there is no reason they would not be doing it.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
Makes sense they advertise here enough
- Comment on Engineers achieve multiplexing entanglement in quantum network 5 weeks ago:
I bet this would be a super cool read if I understood any of it
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 4 months ago:
This piqued my curiosity so I dug into it a bit on Wikipedia. Most worms are dumb as fuck, roundworms are about as dumb as they come with total neuron counts for a roundworm being comparable to a microscopic tartigrade (300 vs 200). Most of this is located in the head of the worm in a brain like structure though, so I’m betting the clones develop their brains independently with no information transfer. I doubt there’s a ton of learning/memory forming going on at all though, based on how simple worms are, so it’s probably functionally identical. I would be surprised if most worm species exhibit any kind of learned behaviors ever.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
Thanks, I wish more people did their own tests and published them like this since marketing for electronics is loose at best
- Comment on Despite Online Threats, Users Aren’t Changing Behavior 5 months ago:
You might get hacked but it’s more likely windows or your updated app might add new bugs or ads or some shit. Quality on updates is often terrible.
Probably not the greatest move but users are generally punished when they update software more often than gain anything (usually just the promise of marginally more secure software) so they are implicitly encouraged to avoid updates.
Would be awesome if software was secure on purchase and not sold as a subscription service.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 5 months ago:
If you enjoy base-building at all as well try Rift Breaker. It’s basically Diablo with tower defense, great game.