when it’s your main place to see friends photos, and where all your friends already are its difficult to just not use it.
you don’t use it and never have, so naturally you won’t feel left out. but those that use it frequently absolutely will.
the old curmudgeon “These dern kids and thur instagrams!” isn’t really all that helpful, I feel.
Would you kindly…
nice. but for now I will stick to freetube and newpipe. as all my subscriptions and content creators I watch are all on youtube.
but thank you for the suggestion
i tried to do this but finding an instance and actual content that appealed to me seemed to be difficult.
there are a lot of kneejerk, tinfoil hat individuals on lemmy that seem to get rather dramatic over bluesky.
bluesky adds new fonts in webapp
“THIS IS WHAT THE CORPORATE OVERLORDS WANT. THESE FONTS ARE JUST LIKE TWITTER. WAKE UP SHEEPLE! IF YOU DON’T USE MASTODON, YOURE GOING TO GET MEASLES AND YOUR CHILDREN WILL PERISH!”
(/s but you get what I mean)
you can get a fairly decent simple android device for like 70 bucks. so the gimmick seems to prey on those that wish to have an “experience” and not a functional device.
600 dollars
this is a joke, right?
"We’ve updated our terms
By accepting, you agree to our updated (Terms of Service,)including the arbitration provision and class action waiver. You understand that we process your information as described in the (Privacy Policy,) which may include sharing information about your use of (Bloomberg.com) with third parties"
I’m so sick of online publications being the sketchiest places imaginable. it makes me skip articles that might otherwise interest me.
i think we are talking about two entirely different things. you’re talking about generalized stuff and I’m talking about a specific person’s feed.
I’m not talking politics or other stuff. literally just talking a personalized feed. just for entertainment.
golly. not every single thing has to lead to the end of the world, man.
chill with the “propaganda and disinformation”. I’m talking cats and anime and video games.
there are tweaks that can be made. also I’m talking about an individual’s personal feed
if I open tiktok right now, my feed will differ from yours. because it’s personalized. reddit is a bad example because its not personalized.
if you’re seeing far right videos on your feed its because you’re engaging with that content. you’re feeding the algorithm.
don’t engage with that garbage and you won’t see it.
manipulated by whom? if it can be manipulated so that you get to see the content you like, I say thats fine.
if you mean manipulated by 3rd parties to sell ads, then that’s bad.
this isn’t a black and white thing. it can exist without being data to sell for ads. what matters is if the one hosting the videos is willing to sell that data.
if its kept to just your own personal usage data to make your experience a better one, that’s not a terrible thing.
tags are one way for sure. but then its difficult to find new stuff that might fit your interests that you don’t have tags for.
what does control over what they want to watch look like without an algorithm?
an algorithm doesn’t have to be a negative thing.
agreed. there is a way to keep that algorithm private. on a person to person case.
that information would just have to not be sold. thats the difference.
an algorithm wouldn’t be inherently evil. the data collected is what’s potentially dangerous. but if its kept to just your personal account, it could be quite safe
and make the app less of a chore to use.
i mean… a lot of the content on the fediverse is literally just lifted straight from the other “junk food” social media websites that were just named.
its just a federated experience. not a “healthy” one. I’m all for moving more people over to the fediverse but let’s maybe take it down a couple notches with the weird propaganda-esque ads?
it quite annoys me as well. “No annoying algorithms!”
…great. so it will never learn what content I actually like to see and will feed me random crap I don’t want to see.
i get like the same 5 videos of someone walking around outside and a couple of ads for stuff I’m not even remotely interested in.
healthy? what do you mean by healthy. healthy for whom? the life of the app itself? because it won’t survive without dedicated users.
if there is no algorithm to keep track of what users want to see vs don’t want to see, they’ll stop using the app in favor of apps that cater to their interests.
watching a random video of something I’m not interested in isn’t particularly all that fun.
if an app learns I like anime and video games or specific types of content, then I’m more likely to use the app.
the issue with loops is there’s no algorithm. so I get 10 random videos that don’t interest me and just one that does, almost.
that’s not going to work long term for engagement. i already get bored on loops after like a minute.
Golly I loved these things when I was a kid. I still do.
the same level of toxicity that I left reddit for seems to be permeating Lemmy, now.
what’s with this curmudgeon type shit? their livelihood is at risk. just because you’re not part of the ecosystem doesn’t mean you need to dismiss a way to make money thats worked for quite a few people.