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- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 12 hours ago:
In some discussions, faith, good or bad, doesn’t matter. If a politician says that ducks have three feet, whether they say that in good faith or not, it’s wrong. So it’s still best to assume good faith and logically explain how it is incorrect. To respond to such a statement with an accusation is a fallacy.
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 14 hours ago:
The real problem is children on the Internet. The real solution is getting parents to use parental control software.
If you’re a full grown adult using Facebook, much less addicted to it, ya get what ya deserve.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 18 hours ago:
Another option is to not use Twtich. There’s literally a jillion other things to do online.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 21 hours ago:
When one assumes bad faith, one is assuming guilt. That isn’t fair. I have found it better to assume innocence, to adopt Judge Blackstone’s ratio over Judge Dredd’s.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 day ago:
How do you determine what’s not in good faith?
I personally always assume good faith. I can’t read people’s minds. On the Internet, I can’t even see facial expressions or hear how they’re saying it. It’s like that Key and Peele text message sketch.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 2 days ago:
How have things changed?
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 3 days ago:
I’m using the website. After what you said, I checked and it has Subscribed/Local/All at the top of the page. That’s really nice. I just started using Lemmy so I haven’t completely figured it out yet. I use old reddit, so it might be set up the same way as new reddit but I wouldn’t have known.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 3 days ago:
I can’t figure out how to unsub from the Lemmy version of r/all. So I’m getting latestagecapitalism, politics, politicalmemes, various communist instances. 80% of what’s on my page is politics. I’m not interested in that.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 3 days ago:
I think most people unsubscribe from r/all anyway and subscribe to subs related to their favorite hobbies and games and work related info. Most of my frontpage is for video games I’m currently playing, programs I’m currently using and odd fun subs like moviemistakes or maybemaybemaybe. I wish I could do that here.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 4 days ago:
Between leaving that out and the bit about young gigolos going to a party to bang a bunch of aging movie actresses, I have no idea how that movie works so well.
- Comment on I have no idea how to do my laundry 4 days ago:
There’s not much to it. Washing machines just do what ancient people did except it uses a motor to operate the agitator. I wash my clothes in the tub and use a plunger as a posser. You just plunge till your arm falls off.
- Comment on Strange Times 5 days ago:
So what is it? What’s it’s name?
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
Most of them, OCD, the rehab industry, I was trying to get you to ponder the concept of addiction. Saying what I said so bluntly is like telling a Christian that Jesus died 2000 years ago and he ain’t coming back. I couldn’t just dump that on you.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
What you don’t understand is that addiction is actually a symptom of another illness and doctors would like to get rid of the concept of addiction, but they can’t because it’d collapse a billion dollar industry, turn the DEA and the rest of the government against them, and they’d never hear the end of it from the lay people. “Preoccupation and duration of use” are fuzzy weasel words without any clear definition tacked on to this criteria simply to appease us wall-eyed villagers.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
I was seriously asking. Judging by your reaction though, I assume it doesn’t give a number. Probably because it doesn’t really factor into the diagnosis at all. The core of the diagnosis will be based on how much it affects your health and happiness.
- Comment on Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside. 1 week ago:
Woke to the average person who isn’t terminally online means “Why did Maruchan change the name of Oriental ramen to Soy? Must have something to do with that whole woke thing.”
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
That’s interesting. How many times does the DSM-5 say you can gamble before you have an addiction?
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
I’m not trolling. I’m trying to get you to think about what you’re saying. I’m hoping if you do, you’ll realize that doctors have to base their diagnosis on “I want to stop but I can’t” and that’s all. Unless it’s something like drinking or drugs that can kill you or harm others, they can’t help some one who says they don’t have a problem.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
It’s not a gotcha. It’s more of the Socratic method.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
Yes I read your comment. So if a man is compelled to murder two hobos a month and can’t break the habit, that would not be a strong indication of an addiction?
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
So how many hours of TF2 can you play a day before doctors will diagnose you with a addiction? Four, eight, sixteen?
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
It is correct. If you do heroin everyday, you will have physical problems. If you stop playing Team Fortress 2 and it causes you to start shaking, vomiting, and shitting your pants, then that’s comparable to heroin. But you won’t do that so they’re not the same types of addiction. That’s why the medical community defines addiction by how something affects your life and not by some arbitrary number of times you do it.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
That’s a physical addiction. Drug addiction is a problem physicians handle. Psychologists handle addiction to video games, gambling, sex, the Internet, etc and that’s how they define addiction.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
He’s right. Clinical addiction has nothing to do with how much you do something, it has to do with how much it causes problems in your life. I know everyone on Lemmy is tripping over their own hard ons to kill corporations, but there are people using lemmy 16 hours a day and if laws are passed to fight Internet addiction, they will not specifically target corporations. We all go down together. Just ask the creator of Urban Dead.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
The problem is there are a lot of subreddits that are an excellent resource. As far as I know, there aren’t any Blender help instances with a 100,000 people. I really wish there were.
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 1 week ago:
That’s like saying that famine and starvation is a perk of communism when someone like Mao fucks up. In both systems, what matters is trying to find the most efficient way to generate and distribute wealth. Profit in capitalism is a byproduct of what matters. It’s important for people to remember this so they don’t fall for MLMs, pyramid and Ponzi schemes.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
use something without an algorithm.
Lemmy uses an algorithm.
- Comment on Website 2 weeks ago:
I had a similar problem in the late 90s except I was in my late 20s and a friend of mine got me into web developing. It took me a couple of weeks to realize I didn’t need to spend 30 minutes uploading my work via ftp over a 56K line to see the website. I could have just opened it up with a browser on my own computer. I wasted a lot of time.
- Comment on Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial 2 weeks ago:
No no. You’re right. The algae rythmz just got me. I suddenly believe the Earth is flat and I’m going to go eat some Tide pods.
- Comment on Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial 2 weeks ago:
You’ve never come across something and view it out of curiosity? The algorithms love when you branch out like that.
The problem with tech companies is that they’ve hyped up their tech so much that people actually think it’s sentient. Algorithms don’t love anything anymore than a cake recipe loves anything.
You’re being amazingly condescending to people being abused and guided by the algorithms, acting like you’re above it.
No, I’m being normally condescending which is difficult not to do when people are being pushed around by their computers and phones. It’s like somebody getting manipulated by a light switch. “Oh my god! It knows when I want the light to be on! Get out of my mind!” I’m not acting like I’m above it.
You’re 3 clicks away from conspiracy theories flooding your feed by way of “here’s how flat earthers explain gravity” because your chosen video, the bridge video, and the conspiracy videos are all using the same keywords.
So? I get curious and look at that stuff but I don’t go walled-eyed and start drooling. If I don’t look, it goes away. Or better yet, if it doesn’t go away, I search for videos I’m actually interested in.
You’re not noticing all the “harmless” unrelated suggested content from the games you don’t play like Factorio, Stardew, Hollow Knight, No Man’s Sky, or Star field but it’s there, just as predatory, seeing where you’ll bite. The overlapping keywords and viewerships are there. It’s exactly the same situation.
This is some weird conspiracy stuff. So Hollow Knight and Stardew Valley is trying to eat my soul? This is the same kind of cryptic talk that people freaking out about heavy metal and DnD in the 80s used.
This category association is how people get drawn into deep, dark corners. This is how segmented conspiracy groups converge. This is how the manosphere becomes an echo chamber. This is how self-harm and self-hate content puts someone in a hole by themselves.
That and the search bar. Most people who get stuck in that stuff are seeking it out. It’s what they’re interested in.
You’re acting morally superior without an actual understanding of what these platforms are designed to do.
No, you think these algorithms are way more effective than they actually are. A lot of what you describe happens because algorithms can’t read people’s minds. They’re just dumb machines. Bare in mind that chess AI from the 80s can wipe it’s ass with your face and those mighty algorithms were like 25KB in size. Just 5KB is enough to present challenging AI. This is enough to give the appearance of Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde having different personalities.