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- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 2 days ago:
I don’t think social media is inherently evil, but profit motive creeps into people’s private lives and fundamentally corrupts the natural premise of social connection.
Social media is huge money, all through advertising. Advertising will use anything it can to manipulate an audience’s behavior, that’s what it exists for in terms of research and how organizations decide what ads to run and where: net engagement and sales figures. Whether to sell you a product or a political idea, it is most effective when you don’t realize you’re being advertised to. This encourages ad firms and political campaigns to manipulate user psychology to get the most meaningful results they can.
And while the fediverse is probably more resistant to advertising than a centrally controlled system, there is nothing stopping well crafted astroturfing in this space. Political astroturfing in particular doesn’t generally look like what someone expects an ad to look like because of its ubiquitous nature and its natural network effects.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 1 week ago:
I mean that’s kind of the point. What types of experiences can make someone “mentally ill”? Can it be weaponized against an otherwise cohesive society?
- Comment on Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon 2 weeks ago:
How do I get this guy’s job
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 2 weeks ago:
And then God said:
“Lol. Lmao”
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 2 weeks ago:
Any time now. Or in the past 10,000 years would be great
- Comment on The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell 2 weeks ago:
Money. Science is resource intensive and a big business.
- Comment on Anon watches some reruns 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon watches some reruns 3 weeks ago:
👏👏👏👏
- Comment on The yin and the yang 4 weeks ago:
I think it just helps make the meme. The Miyazaki films can be dark too, like nausicaa or especially graveyard of the fireflies
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 3 months ago:
This piqued my curiosity so I dug into it a bit on Wikipedia. Most worms are dumb as fuck, roundworms are about as dumb as they come with total neuron counts for a roundworm being comparable to a microscopic tartigrade (300 vs 200). Most of this is located in the head of the worm in a brain like structure though, so I’m betting the clones develop their brains independently with no information transfer. I doubt there’s a ton of learning/memory forming going on at all though, based on how simple worms are, so it’s probably functionally identical. I would be surprised if most worm species exhibit any kind of learned behaviors ever.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 5 months ago:
If you enjoy base-building at all as well try Rift Breaker. It’s basically Diablo with tower defense, great game.
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 6 months ago:
The CDC reports rates pretty well below the general average, at least for 2021.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 6 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized? 6 months ago:
I think there is an arms race with content moderation that even if the instance is not themselves trying to monetize, clever and unscrupulous ad agencies will slip ads into feeds under the guise of actual content. I think it’s a big reason Reddit went to shit even before it went public.
How do you separate a user who innocently includes McDonald’s into a post or comment from someone doing so with the intention of driving revenue? (Do you want some fries now?)
It’s probably already the case now just the ‘ads’ are mostly all political shit. Same idea just with a top-down political agenda rather than driving sales. They have all the public fediverse data to base their strategies on already.
I think this issue is just handwaved away with “oh go to a different instance” but we’re here for content ultimately and not all instances have what we’re looking for. Ad agencies are going to be able to adapt to a changing landscape like that because it’s literally their full time jobs/careers.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 11 months ago:
Because craftopia and palworld have a social aspect getting a big seed of players who only played it because it was free (for them) was I think a catalyst in making palworld blow up like it did. There are too many games out there for people to look through so it probably helps get word out effectively to sell out cheap for a big initial audience like gamepass when you’re a small dev. I only knew of craftopia or palworld because of gamepass at least
The flip side is Microsoft is 100% giving the above as a sales pitch to devs why they should put their game on gamepass for peanuts (paid in exposure!). That’s probably some of what drives the shittier deal devs get now
