oh my god I went back to FB a few months ago just to see how bad it is.
So the algorithm is real good at picking up on what you like, and it’ll do that quickly, but slowly the propaganda starts seeping in.
For example, I like Taylor Swift. Don’t hide that here or there. So, she starts popping up. At first fun fan pages.
Then, all of a sudden I get a weird one, that she’s actually conservative. Check a few days later, I see another, she’s endorsing trump. (Definitiely did not).And now, without even interacting with the posts, half of them are conservative focused propaganda. It’s all 100% BS of course, it’s just AI generated images and text, but holy fuck do those morons eat it up. Not just Swift, but everything there is 100% a propaganda machine. They 100% lure you in with things you like, then they turn up the rage after a bit to keep you engaged and stuck there.
Place is a cesspool. Stay away from FB. Remember, family doesn’t let family stay on FB.
Twitter is also turning into the same thing.
account age: 2 months
Ah, that’s why.
Don’t worry, the toxicity doesn’t set in until the 4th month
honestly apart from the usual redditesque disagreements sometimes, its fine.
It was more by way of explaining what the heck I was doing at FB. Been there lately?
Agreed, Facebook is terrible. But I’d say that Lemmy and Reddit are on a par (as regards users and mods). Perhaps Lemmy’s major upside is the decentralized structure, but then you lose out on the niche content that Reddit offers.
I disagree. From my POV it seems like the majority of interactions on lemmy aim at sharing info, checking it and discussion.
There is some clickbaiting and some BS, but i tend to interpret it as a residual of BS internet culture and a product of the general shit aspects of society. Mostly people here seem to try good.
We are all a product of history, so this is fine as long as you somehow try to improve (together), imo.
I think you forget how bad Reddit is. If Lemmy was as bad as Reddit was when I left, I most certainly would not be using it. However, troublesome instances have a habit of hating furries and defederating with us so, your experience may differ.
These images are AI generated. Fuck that.
People using technology on the internet?
What’s the world coming to…
There’s not much technology having worse optics than AI that isn’t a weapon in some way, so…
The exaggerated facial expressions always disturb me (also I don’t really get the message for this one, other than Lemmy=joy and facebook=sadness)
Lemmy is good, because there’s less AI drivel. But that’s currently changing. =.=
My mother keeps sending stuff over Facebook, my sister keeps inviting me to supposedly important events over Facebook, my work wants me to use twitter, and my brother in law keeps sending tiktock videos.
I remind all of them that I don’t use social media, and my Facebook account is only up for the 2 times a year I need it to get ahold of otherwise-unreachable people. If you want something, send me a text or email and be direct.
On the one hand I don’t like the amount of toxicity and political views. On the other hand it makes Lemmy unviable for AI training
True, once I filtered out all posts that mention political topics and blocked people that posted political posts, my feed became a ghost feed. Some days I might get multiple new posts but other times there might be nothing new for weeks.
And that’s a bad thing? It seems healthy not to have content continually served to you.
I like it here. People are quite nice for the most part
FUB fact a human rectum can stretch up to nine inches, a racoon can fit through a hole 6 inches or wider.
But what to do with the other half of a raccoon?
You Have Your Moments. Not Many Of Them, But You Do Have Them.
Me too.
Some of you are alright, don’t log in to Facebook tomorrow
If this is meant to say that Lemmy is a cult-like social media, I kinda have to agree. Like Reddit and Twitter are, but only different in that people on Lemmy are more likely to be obsessed with Linux and be trans compared to the other platforms.
Lemmy still has the same “group think” or “hive mind” problem, its just different. More politically left compared to Reddit, which is still politically left but its not so far from center like Lemmy is. Like, Lemmy users have been observed telling people who are politically left that they “arent politically left enough.” Who says that, why is that even a thing to argue over?
Social media sucks.
But I can’t live without it.dies
