Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes

• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In my opinion, algorithms and dark patterns in social media need to be destroyed. Any of us who remember early social media will remember it not being anywhere near as bad as the monstrosity it has evolved into today.

  Instagram was quite fun when it had a reputation for being a “hipster” platform and before Facebook bought it and absolutely butchered it, for example. Now it’s genuinely horrible.

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  • BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Couldn’t agree more. Social media isn’t the problem, sure. The hyper aggressive algorithms that most of them use are extremely harmful to individuals and society.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think most people agree but when we slip into trashing social media as a concept and lose the nuance I get concerned.

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  • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fuck man, I’m old enough to remember Facebook was exclusively posts by my friends. Shit has come a long way.

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    • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup. I’d log in, scroll for maybe 10-15 posts before I saw the first one from yesterday, play some Wild Ones, and that was that.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ok so sounds like the problem isn’t social media then?

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  • BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s like saying beer doesn’t cause alcoholism, the alcohol in it does. You’re being pedantic.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, when you just say social media = bad you feed into the moral panic with your intellectual laziness.

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      • BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You are insufferable.

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  • seshcobar@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you seem like a very fun person to be around.

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    • BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He’s just being argumentative. Some people think that’s a personality trait.

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      • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Every teenager, edgelord and redditor (but I repeat myself) thinks this way. That being some kind of contrarian/devil’s advocate dipshit is some proof or evidence of their mighty intellect.

        “Oh, but have you thought about this!!! It seems only I am so smart as to have such enlightened thoughts…”

        Every teenager is the Gotcha-Man and they think they’re unique and novel.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      :)

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