All those platforms work the same way. In the end it’s all about the same social dynamics, about control. “We are the alternative to all the shitty peer groups out there! Join us!” is one of the oldest tricks in the playbook. There is no alternative. Because it’s all based on human nature.
Every problem is an opportunity to earn even more money or gain even more power. Bad for average users, great for those who own and control the platform.
Fixing social media is like fixing guns so they can’t hurt or kill anyone anymore. Both have been designed for a very particular purpose.
Kidnapped and sent to Guantanamo Bay by communist aliens of course. Aliens who invaded real Earth where humans came from (which is now called Mars). They stole our planet!
Maximum post-truth factor for fun: 9/11 never happened and all the footage of the twin towers are nothing more than AI fakes.
It’s a scam at best. At worst you find yourself being part of a death game, thinking you can win all the money by killing all of the other players - only to get executed in the end anyway.
Well, turns out Lemmy is exactly the same. Got the evidence a few minutes ago.
I’m not familiar with shadowbanning because it didn’t happen to me or anyone else I wrote with. We all got permabanned officially. But even the permabans were weird. In some case I was still able to edit old comments, in another I wasn’t. In a third case I was able to backup my saved links. So technically, a lot was broken. I don’t think that anyone at Reddit really knows what’s going on or has control over anything.
One of my accounts got banned because I wrote that racism is bad. Another for writing that sexism is bad. A third one because I condemned a terrorist group in a private chat (Of course a group which is officially considered to be a terrorist group by many countries). I used simple language in all those cases, like literally writing “Racism is bad”. Is there a pattern? Is it random? Who knows. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is no reasonable explanation.
No. Tell me. I’m genuinely interested.
I thought this way a long time ago. But just like Sisyphus I had to watch the rock roll down the slope again and again after believing to have achieved anything. It only takes a slight breeze to make the rock roll down again.
Reddit is not worse than any other platform when it comes to getting banned for (seemingly) random reasons.
It depends on your prefered type of humor. Do you like gallows humor?
What’s the alternative to ignoring them? You can’t make them smarter. You can’t exclude them from voting without creating something similar to fascism. Not even removing warning labels helps because idiots don’t read them anyway.
Roughly 90 % if I have access to plenty of data. According to others it’s less than 10 %.
According to myself? According to others? Or the average of both?
Never underestimate the kinks of people.
I give this ragebait a 6/10. Could be worse, could be better.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation
Getting detained and sent to a medical institution doesn’t make suicide attempts a crime.
But who writes those algorithms and AIs? And why? And why do they work?