Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems?
Naich@lemmings.world 1 week ago
Social media, like most things in life, has its good and bad sides. Places like twitter and Facebook have definitely been moved to the “bad” side of things through the use of an algorithm to curate the user’s experience and steer them towards socially harmful content. It’s much more difficult to do this on federated SM because anti social messaging doesn’t get amplified.
It’s not a panacea, and there will be attempts to corrupt it, but federated SM does give me hope that we can escape the rabbit hole of billionaire bro psychopaths.
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 week ago
It’s equally easy to do on federated social media, it’s just that no one found the incentive (yet?).
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Why is it fairly easy?
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 week ago
It’s just an algorithm, all it takes is someone deciding they want to do it.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Huh? What algorithm? Where?
Lemmy has no algorithm in the way that you mean it.
Which is to say: there are a number of sort options like “top”, “hot” or “scaled” which work purely on the basis of upvotes or downvotes and don’t involve the actual content within the posts whatsoever.
It also has no “suggested” or “for you” and no personalization or data harvesting, the sort being based purely on upvotes or downvotes also doesn’t artificially skew the content politically in any which way.
It’s also completely open source so if that changed, not only would people find out immediately, but they’d be able to fork it and undo the change and maintain their own version.
Any instance then using an unfair sort feature would be defederated from.
So I don’t understand what you mean at all to be honest.