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Outside of the ethical considerations, I’m not militant about the organic label. But I stopped by this little health food store in a tiny town (think ~1k pop.) in a very red state, and she told me that I would never buy brussel sprouts from anywhere else after trying her’s. I was dubious at first, but I just cooked them a few hours ago, and she was absolutely correct! Best sprouts I’ve ever had!
less free range than you’d think. I would say at least 30% of content on the fediverse is bot originated. 5-16% of commentary is AI generated.
Even if fedi was pure and perfect, it still exists within a wider ecosystem of algo-driven rage and it’s influence leaks in from every side. It’s not just that we don’t exclusively get our news from the fedi it’s that news articles themselves are optimized for rage, the writers are deeply under it’s spell, politician’s media strategy is optimized for it.
Algorithms give you what you want. If you’re getting rage, you’re looking at and upvoting rage. On Reddit, 99% of what I get are posts about Hitman, Blender, Boomershooters and other things I’m interested in. The same with YT except I also get obscure movies from the 30s and 40s. The more of that I consume, the more the algorithms push it to me. The same with news. If there’s a big news event I might read and watch a bunch of news and then all the news stuff gets pushed to me.
Algorithms boil down to “Did user look at, upvote something with these keywords? If yes, then send more things with those keywords their way.” These magical mystery algorithms are probably 5 lines of code most.
It certainly could be true but ever since I started blocking news on sight and read my local newspaper only, I have not seen nearly as much rage bait content.
That being said it is kind of annoying that every time I block a community posting news another one pops up :/
And those who buck the system are fired.
… or worse.
They don’t get cookies:(
Well damn, now I want to know just how good those cookies must be…
Also, username does not check out, unless there is cheese in those cookies, perhaps? 🧀
Perhaps…
True, there’s definitely that. I guess I just wish there was more thought between that and “do I really need to post this?”
Just don’t go full regard
Average fediverse interaction
We have very different fedi interactions. Have a nice day!
Fuck you, have a nice day! You lovely asshole!
Have a nice fuck you day!
My ragebait is vegan, so you can get mad guilt free.
> Veganism is abstainment from, as far as is possible and practicable, the exploitation of animals for any purpose.
> Editable meme templates are “exploitables”.
> Memes with animals are animal exploitation.
> These are therefore not vegan and hereby banned from /c/vegan@lemmy.world.
Carnist Troll detected
Everything is banned on c/vegan.
Can’t even post a nice steak there.
Nice. My ragebait is mostly solar powered so also largely guilt free.
But is it gluten free? I’m MAD!
The circlejerk symbol on the bottom right is a bit weird, but doable.
The thing is, this 100% organic rage is OUR rage, not the rage of our supposed technofeudal overlords.
Just like mama used to make
I just like it when people post the sandwiches
So, like a club?
One of my favorite subreddits back when posting photoshopped pictures of birds with arms was all the rage was /r/notbirdswitharms which was a sub where you couldn’t not just post birds with arms, you couldn’t post anything that wasn’t a sandwich
Sadly this is not true. We do have a recommendation system, called Top. And it spamms me with enraging american politics when I go to All.
I usually do Top 12 Hours as my default. And then for individual communities Top Day/24 hours unless it’s a small community then I’ll do top of the week.
Top 12 doesn’t filter all of the American spam, but it cuts out some in my experience. But I also just have bookmarks going to my favorite communities anyway.
What if I told you that you don’t have to do that?
I prefer “scaled”, which is even more like a recommendation system.
I prefer “new”.
If it is Top, then that is what people are choosing to upvote. But you don’t have to browse by Top. PieFed even offers keyword filters, plus the ability to unsubscribe from all such communities while also allowing you to see them with just the touch of a button to go to a Topic Feed showing it when you (rarely) actually do want it. You could also replicate this behavior in Lemmy, but it takes having one account per Internet area and that’s a huge pain. Or you could just sort by New. Or block the users submitting such content. The list of configuration options available to you is practically endless, and nowhere explained in the slightest degree that would be helpful:-).
!nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social does a pretty good job of keeping that stuff out.
Thanks guys. This entire thread is killing me.
It’s easy to blame “the algorithm” for our divisiveness. Much harder to accept that the algorithm does that because it amplifies flaws in human nature.
It is fairly easy to accept that it is just amplifying human nature. The main issue is that with the major locked down aggregators the amplification is intentional and continuously changed to increase the amplification by doing things like stuffing divisive posts into feeds.
because it amplifies flaws in human nature.
It might be amplifying already existing traits, but that doesn’t excuse it. It’s still damaging to society at large
A huge chunk of humanity is currently tripping up over the “is fascism bad?” question. There’s no fucking way we’re tackling the subtle influence of internet algorithms.
On the bright side, if we do ever get around to the topic there will probably be a lot fewer opinions to contend with.
Hell yeah! But don’t forget the beans
I mean things like GIFT are always going to be with us but this feels like the normal level of being angry at idiots on the internet versus turbo corpo enshittification
GIFT: Get It Fucking Together or is there another acronym you mean?
