X51

@X51@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a further blow users are increasingly opting to delete Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I was blocked from posting relevant content to a dead group that was struggling to achieve member interaction. They made me do about 10 captchas to prove I'm not a robot. They blocked my account. It was a huge favor. I don't miss the site.

  On the flip side of that scenario, anyone who was actually interested in what I was posting in that group now has nothing to read. On any given site, I would estimate that more than 90% of the users visiting and reading the content are not interacting. Only a small percent of the users are doing anything to inspire the general population to visit the site. To me it's idiotic to punish people who are contributing positive and constructive content. By doing so, you are giving hundreds of people one less reason to visit the site.

  Users abandoning the platform is the only logical outcome when your algorithms punish/ban/discourage positive & useful interaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Technology makes us more lonely...?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I think technology is more reliable than the people in our lives and we migrate towards reliability. This makes people even less reliable than the technology around us and it feeds a cycle that isolates us from others. The people who design the technology then manipulate their products to make them more addictive and feed what we respond to.

  I have never felt regret over making one choice over another. My regrets in life is that the options I had to choose between were never acceptable to me from the beginning. Life is sometimes a process of choosing between the lesser of two evils. I would not describe myself as lonely, but if I was lonely, it'd definitely be because i chose to be lonely over some other option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm more concerned that deleted content lingers on remote instances after it is deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Data is being collected at a higher level than social media sites. Content delivery networks are capturing the data. Mastodon uses a CDN. I think it's safe to say that data is being collected across all the sites you visit, including the Fediverse.