lilmann@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Remember when everyone kept saying Tik Tok needed to be banned because it can be manipulated by China, and when the US started to ban it everyone started saying that it needs to be saved, and now (shock horror) China is manipulating it? Pretty sick timeline we’re in
u_tamtam@programming.dev 3 months ago
If you have the impression that there’s a dominant, homogeneous “mass” sharing the same opinion, you are right there in the middle of an information bubble and a victim of those “algorithms”.
lilmann@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Sorry, I guess I should make it more overtly clear when I’m speaking in hyperbolics. Quite obviously, I’m aware that not every single person living or dead shares the same opinion. What I mean to say is that most of the popular channels (internet forums, news outlets, social media) seemingly flipped the script overnight, and likely will now do again.
Just to cover my bases: trends are not indictive of every single individual opinions and should not be viewed as such, but are a roughly reliable way to gauge overall public opinion