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10 votes
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What will prevent this site from becoming Reddit 2.0?
And I don’t mean that in a good way. In just a few years, Reddit has devolved from a place to find relevant and quirky information, to basically a platform pushing outrage porn, political...
And I don’t mean that in a good way. In just a few years, Reddit has devolved from a place to find relevant and quirky information, to basically a platform pushing outrage porn, political divisiveness, and mindless memes, with occasional humor sprinkled in.
The outrage porn is the worst, just exhausting and tiresome. The voting mechanics are mostly to blame for this. Since outrage draws the most engagement, the more people who interact with the site, then the more this type of material will surface and thrive.
The political divisiveness germinates similarly, with the added impetus of state actors throwing fuel on the flames.
The memes are seemingly harmless, but are no substitutes for actual dialogue.
I would just like to see a platform that places a premium on meaningful social dialogue for the future betterment of all involved.
15 votes -
In Threads’ dwindling engagement, social media’s flawed hypothesis is laid bare
17 votes -
X to collect biometric and employment data
39 votes -
Europeans in service of Russian propaganda machine
10 votes -
Amateur sleuths patrol the town of Oulu, Finland to try to recover stolen bicycles and take on bike thieves
11 votes -
Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
36 votes -
Mastodon’s next major release enables full-text search. A few flagship instances already have it.
10 votes -
Maryland school district sues social media alleging addictive design rewires young brains
20 votes -
github-less-social: Filter list to make GitHub less like a social media platform
16 votes -
YouTube's privacy settings now block you from seeing suggested content
I've always been a bit of a privacy enthousiast. Have had everything blocked that Google and by extension YouTube wants to scrape off you. This means I've also blocked my view history. Recently...
I've always been a bit of a privacy enthousiast. Have had everything blocked that Google and by extension YouTube wants to scrape off you. This means I've also blocked my view history.
Recently YouTube started giving out a warning on the homepage that you have blocked your view history, that you can change it in your privacy settings and that it helps them serve you better content. What it also means is that your homepage is just one big popup to guilt trip you into sharing your data. The homepage won't show any suggested content anymore.
While it is in their interest to do so and since they are a company wanting to make money it is understandable. Nevertheless it seems harsh from going to see content that you might like to only seeing a big warning sign right now.
What are you experiences with this?
34 votes -
Black Twitter abandons Musk's X. The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a ‘digital diaspora’ in search of a new home.
66 votes -
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on
81 votes -
Saudi Arabia: Brother of prominent UK based scholar sentenced to death over tweets
12 votes -
Most of my Instagram ads are for drugs, stolen credit cards, hacked accounts, counterfeit money, and weapons
41 votes -
‘Rebel canning’ is having a moment, whether or not it should
58 votes -
Here's the plan - a video to the audience from LTT
23 votes -
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
35 votes -
Canadian court upholds social media sensitivity training requirement for Jordan Peterson
62 votes -
Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls
121 votes -
TikTok’s plan to take on Spotify and Apple Music
13 votes -
The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok
20 votes -
Canada demands Facebook lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing
51 votes -
When Instagram was used for government communication
6 votes -
It's not just male influencers who preach problematic manipulation
21 votes -
The creators of TikTok caused my website to shut down
12 votes -
Twitch will let streamers ban users from watching their streams
15 votes -
Madison Reeve explains why she quit Linus Tech Tips (CW: self harm, slurs, sexual harassment)
167 votes -
‘Death Glitch’ looks at what happens after we’ve logged off for good
13 votes -
US Special Counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Donald Trump’s account
40 votes -
What do I think about Twitter/X Community Notes?
18 votes -
Failures in accuracy, ethics and responsibility with Linus Tech Tips and LMG as a whole
163 votes -
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
79 votes -
Illinois just passed the first law in the US protecting financial rights of children of influencers
35 votes -
The Reddit protest is finally over. Reddit won.
131 votes -
Are unwanted Reddit push notifications a new thing?
I haven’t touched reddit since the APIcalyspe. I’m planning to delete my account but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I was a heavy Apollo user on iOS but never subscribed to it for its push...
I haven’t touched reddit since the APIcalyspe. I’m planning to delete my account but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I was a heavy Apollo user on iOS but never subscribed to it for its push notification service, instead I kept the official reddit app installed and the only thing I used it for were its notifications. I still have both apps installed.
Anyway, I was surprised to see one pop up yesterday, especially since it wasn’t connected to my user activity (a new private message or reply to an old comment of mine or something). The notification was just an ad. More specifically, it was promoting some trending post on the site that had “>12,000 upvotes.” In many many years of having the app installed I’ve never seen that before. Is it new?
Reddit’s had a mildly antagonist relationship with its users for ages, but it feels like they are REALLY intensifying things now. I’m glad I got off the train when I did. And sorry for making yet another post about reddit, I think we’re all getting tired of harping on it here.
53 votes -
How to move your Instagram feed to Pixelfed, the photo app that doesn't track your every move
41 votes -
Japan's ridiculous weatherwoman fiasco
57 votes -
Estimating the association between Facebook adoption and well-being in seventy-two countries
5 votes -
It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk: After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
96 votes -
The Court of the Hague orders Meta to unmask anonymous Dutch user accused of repeated defamatory posts
31 votes -
Best FOSS app for Lemmy?
I tried out Sync for Lemmy. Loved it, but I was not a fan of the tracking for ads and the price to get rid of that being $20. Anyone tried the free open source Lemmy apps? I used to use RedReader...
I tried out Sync for Lemmy. Loved it, but I was not a fan of the tracking for ads and the price to get rid of that being $20. Anyone tried the free open source Lemmy apps? I used to use RedReader for Reddit, so I don't mind it being a bit worse than something like Sync.
27 votes -
A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers...
40 votes -
‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: Teen literary influencers swaying publishers
13 votes -
Twitter, Elon Musk and the Indigo Blob
19 votes -
AI comes for YouTube’s thumbnail industry
26 votes -
X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account
63 votes -
Sync for Lemmy now available on Play Store
80 votes -
Understanding Bill C-18: Canada’s Online News Act
25 votes -
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads – then a Norwegian regulator threatened daily fines
51 votes