"It took less than an hour for the algorithm to move us from standard MAGA content to deeper ideological terrain — podcast clips, campus debates and "red pill" rants about gender roles and...
"It took less than an hour for the algorithm to move us from standard MAGA content to deeper ideological terrain — podcast clips, campus debates and "red pill" rants about gender roles and identity."
It's deeply frustrating to me how the right wing nutters continue to scream about how they're supposedly discriminated against online and yet every single algorithm massively favours garbage right wing content. Why? Because it often gets the most engagement - you either think it's loathsome and hate watch/respond, or lap up the lies. Either way their systems view it as the best performing political content. Every algorithm I engage with now is the same: I accidentally view a right adjacent video or clip for even a second and suddenly my damn feed needs to be purged of racism, hate, and lies.
I'm just exhausted of it and deeply want better control, governance and consequences of and for this trash.
This is a bit of an anomaly for me: I rarely submit topics, let alone political ones, but this landed in my inbox today, and I found it so well-balanced and thought-provoking that I thought Tildes...
This is a bit of an anomaly for me: I rarely submit topics, let alone political ones, but this landed in my inbox today, and I found it so well-balanced and thought-provoking that I thought Tildes might as well.
I'm not on social media whatsoever myself and thus (I suppose) am growing steadily more alienated from the rest of the world and solidly entering my Old Fart era. That being said, I 100% get the feelings of general depressive "life is a scam" or "I don't belong", and I can see how a party could very effectively tap into that and how the Democratic party isn't.
I'm really looking forward to reading this when I have a spare minute. The onset of the internet and onslaught of today's tyrannical social media ecosystem is so pervasive throughout our societies...
I'm really looking forward to reading this when I have a spare minute. The onset of the internet and onslaught of today's tyrannical social media ecosystem is so pervasive throughout our societies that it's completely upended young people's right to be ignorant and enjoy life.
To me, the current climate gives them no other option than to become a hardliner on all things or face not fitting in.
"Be cool or be cast out" like Rush said, but cool today is ultimate conviction of wild ideologies rather than wearing a Lacoste branded t-shirt.
"It took less than an hour for the algorithm to move us from standard MAGA content to deeper ideological terrain — podcast clips, campus debates and "red pill" rants about gender roles and identity."
It's deeply frustrating to me how the right wing nutters continue to scream about how they're supposedly discriminated against online and yet every single algorithm massively favours garbage right wing content. Why? Because it often gets the most engagement - you either think it's loathsome and hate watch/respond, or lap up the lies. Either way their systems view it as the best performing political content. Every algorithm I engage with now is the same: I accidentally view a right adjacent video or clip for even a second and suddenly my damn feed needs to be purged of racism, hate, and lies.
I'm just exhausted of it and deeply want better control, governance and consequences of and for this trash.
This is a bit of an anomaly for me: I rarely submit topics, let alone political ones, but this landed in my inbox today, and I found it so well-balanced and thought-provoking that I thought Tildes might as well.
I'm not on social media whatsoever myself and thus (I suppose) am growing steadily more alienated from the rest of the world and solidly entering my Old Fart era. That being said, I 100% get the feelings of general depressive "life is a scam" or "I don't belong", and I can see how a party could very effectively tap into that and how the Democratic party isn't.
I'm really looking forward to reading this when I have a spare minute. The onset of the internet and onslaught of today's tyrannical social media ecosystem is so pervasive throughout our societies that it's completely upended young people's right to be ignorant and enjoy life.
To me, the current climate gives them no other option than to become a hardliner on all things or face not fitting in.
"Be cool or be cast out" like Rush said, but cool today is ultimate conviction of wild ideologies rather than wearing a Lacoste branded t-shirt.