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Hell yes, get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.
If you can’t run out of content on the platform you’re on, it’s a bad thing.
Use youtube clients that follow users
Browse text platforms that let you follow communities.
TT, IG, /all, and shorts are where your brain goes to die.
Everything that’s on your phone has an algorithm. It’s like saying I don’t eat things with chemicals in it.
Technically correct, but I think you know what the above user meant.
recommendation algorithm
though i reckon lemmy has one too, just a more transparent one
Ahh yes, the old “things are bad so we shouldn’t worry about making them any better” argument.
That’s not what I wrote. It’s just that they were complaining about the wrong thing. Algorithms are not bad, just how they are sometimes used is bad. Most of the time they are applied in a good or neutral way.
Well I didn’t write anything about phones, I was talking about social media echo-chambers, but you took that there.
Okay then let’s get rid of the phone, it was just an example either way. Every program consists of algorithms, no matter where it is installed: in your phone, car or TV. In a street light, a digital thermometer or a smoke detector.
You wrote:
get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.
If we do that, no digital thing will work anymore. It’s not just social media. Or phones. It’s everything.
get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.
you get my point, yet you refuse to get my point, we have nothing left here to discuss
Group chats with Friends? Games? Ebooks? There might be algorithms associated with those somewhere, but you’d have to go digging for them.
Chats: an algorithm decides the order of the messages shown Games: a lot of algorithms everywhere. Ebooks: eg algorithms are used to decode the drm of you are using a Kindle.
You don’t need to dig very deep.
A pedant’s job is never done, huh?
We should use technical words in a technically correct way, or else public discourse becomes obscured and confused. Like what Discord did with the word “Server”, it’s not innocuous even when people are doing it by accident.
Language isn’t set in stone, and when people use the term “algorithm” when referring to the system in place that decides what content is put in front of them, people understand what they mean. No one gets this algorithm mixed up with the math/computer science term algorithm.
The discord one is slightly different, but I’d argue it isn’t that harmful, as Discord “servers” function effectively as a server from a user point of view. The only problem with this nomenclature is that it somewhat implies to a layperson that there is some form of privacy/security in place, which there isn’t.
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Ever had a conversation with a person about two different topics at the same time but each topic is being talked about in a different app, in real time?
My wife does this.
Our text DMs are about the kids.
Our family chat DMs (Zulip, which is a open-source version of Slack/discord) is full of memes.
(Zulip, which is a open-source version of Slack/discord)
Did you do this to brag, or to avoid the FOSS Enforcement Patrol?
Ah force of habit. I just came from a conference and I had to explain Zulip a dozen times to people.
Mentioning his wife was the brag part.
Me and his wife use signal
Try eating your keeper.
I mean, it would make for an interesting day.
Please keep your dirty hamburgers away from my virgin pumpkin
That scrolling the same apps loop is way more relatable than most people want to admit.
I have now deleted my accounts, but there was at least one time that I was browsing reddit and got really bored, so I opened a new tab to check out reddit.
I looked at the front page posts and was like, “Oh yeah.”
Oh I have a literal ton of stuff I could/should be doing. Haven’t had any would for a long time though
Take a break from social media.
Does Lemmy count as social media?
I think so, yes.
I have been posting things on websites that allow the general public to participate since my childhood, that is, for more than 20 years. At the time I was familiar with “forums”, slightly later also “wikis” and “blogs”… I have no idea why or even when exactly the world started to insist on that strange term “social media” to describe some poorly defined subset of such websites. 🤔
Controversial take here:
In my opinion, if you’re just here to shit post and not actually use your “socializing” brain, then no. Like when you’re picking the weird options in Skyrim and then restoring your last save.
But if you’re committing to the actions and this is your “real playthrough”, then yes.
Yeah i do sometimes just shit post on here, but I’m also trying to treat it like forums in the pre social media age when you could recognize a few users just by their user name. I am also trying to contribute to the “community” aspect.
The 4 apps I jump between:
Connect, Voyager, Raccoon, and Summit.
No, the tiger does not need “enrichment”, it needs to be set free. Do not accept being caged as the normal and don’t be gaslit into thinking the toys you get is “enrichment”.
Reject the premise altogether.
“I angrily reject this joke in a politically awakened manner.”
This could be the type specimen of a Lemmy comment
I’m with you. There’s a word for this. It’s called zoochosis, a play on psychosis. The animals in zoos play with their faeces, eat their faeces, pace, sway etc, because they’re BORED FUCKING SHITLESS. A tiger, like all animals, do not deserve to be locked up in prison and gawked at by idiots with cameras for the crime of being born the wrong species. They’re smart, emotional, deep animals. They are emotionally intelligent. They have feelings. Fuck zoos so fucking hard.
Instructions unclear. Now have salmonella.
I have an app for that, I mostly just do the daily rewards now tho.
