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Azzu@leminal.space 4 days agoDoesn’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.
Triumph@fedia.io 3 days ago
That may be a secondary effect, but it's neither the intention nor the goal of "really notifications" on fediverse.