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FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 days ago
Social media is typically designed to create and strengthen social bubbles, bringing together like-minded people and showing them what they want to see. It is also designed to feed "engagement". Rage is a great way to do that.
Just look at the prevalence of upvoting and downvoting tools in various social media sites. A great way to ensure that opinions that are popular within a particular community become even more prominent, while driving out anything that isn't popular within that community. Little wonder that views inside those bubbles become a bit skewed compared to the outside world as a whole.
Azzu@leminal.space 4 days ago
Doesn’t make too much sense though, because OP said they love AI. If what you said was true, then they should have experienced the bubble of AI lovers, which they don’t.
Also, it’s quite evident that Lemmy is not at all “designed to feed ‘engagement’”, yet it is prevalent here anyway. “Scaled” sorts are the default, which specifically promote the less popular opinions.
This has nothing to do with structural differences, OP simply engages with different kind of people irl and online.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 days ago
This place that we're in right now is not a bubble of AI lovers, it's a bubble of AI haters.
Of course Lemmy is designed to feed engagement. If it wasn't then it would lose engagement to other forms of social media. For example, now that I've responded to your comment you're going to see a notification that will draw you back here.
Azzu@leminal.space 3 days ago
Yeah that’s what I’m saying, the place here is a bubble of AI haters. Yet OP somehow is in it, even though they are an AI lover. They have not been fed “their” bubble, but get exposed to a different form of thinking than their own. That’s the opposite of what you said.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 days ago
It's a process. As long as there are new people showing up, or more rarely people who change their minds, there will always be some disequilibrium.
I was literally told in another thread on this same topic of "AI hate" that I should "leave this community, and not to return" because my views weren't in alignment with the community's. I don't tend to pay attention to that sort of social pressure but other people do and the result is an ongoing filtering of participation.
Triumph@fedia.io 4 days ago
Except that nobody is getting paid for engagement here, so that's not "driving engagement" so much as it's "a feature that people want".
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 days ago
You can drive engagement without money changing hands.