- Convince you that everything you
believewatch is correct, no matter how outlandish.
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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you use corporate social media, be it TikTok, YouTube, FB, Twitter, or whatever, your feed is programmed to feed you content that will do two things:
- Keep you perpetually angry
- Convince you that everything you believe is correct, no matter how outlandish.
Politics achieves that for the largest number of people, therefore the algorithm is feeding that to you. It’ll keep most people clicking on ads.
vxx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ironically that’s not too different from the content we’re seeing on Lemmy as well. I never fully figured out why that is but it seems like we’re somehow addicted to outrage and when there’s no algorithm to serve us that we do it ourselves.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’m too lazy to verify, but I remember a strong sentence that stuck with me. Reading an article that makes you angry produces dopamine all the same as a feel good article. It’s easier to make people angry at a situation.