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[+] 157 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Does Lemmy count as social media?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yes - by most definitions. It's powered by user-generated content and is based on interaction between users through engagement with that content, which is voted and scored.

    There is a difference which I personally feel makes reddit less harmful than other social media, however, which is the algorithm - or lack of it.

    In most social media, the algorithm exists to continually serve people the exact content they engage with in a constant feed, which is IMO the most socially damaging part of social media because it creates endless doomscrolling, toxic echo chambers, promotion of sponsored content, and a whole raft of psychological problems in users.

    The Lemmy homefeed is more organic, and scrolling through 'all' you see content genuinely from everywhere, in a less curated way based on upvotes, not individual algorithmic tailoring. And that's maybe not as "engaging" but it's far less damaging.

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    [–] 101 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Separate apps for various retail stores. I don't want a home depot app. I don't want a kroger app. We have a generic app for this category called a web browser. If you want me to download a specialized app for your store, I assume that means that my browser does not sufficiently breach my privacy for your "business purposes."

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    [–] 83 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    I also second social media, but I need to make another suggestion it'd be Keurigs k-cups. So much plastic waste for the barest level of convenience.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thank you for beating me to mention this.

    K-cups are really amazinlgy bad. And it's not like there aren't much better solutions available. Philips has those fully bio-degradable pads, a local store now sells a type of coffee maker that uses just the coffee powder in balls where the outer shell is compressed grounds that is cracked open to get to the powder inside.

    But no, Keurig and their fucking oceans of plastic waste.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    What the hell is a K-cup, it sounds like something you shove up your vaj

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    proof-of-work blockchains. instead of a utopian decentralized currency we have a utopia for scammers and day traders, and uses a ton of energy at a time when we need to conserve to combat global warming.

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Facial recognition technology. Not only is it not as perfect as people claim in identifying people, but some countries are using it to attack the LGBT since it was discovered the LGBT have different variances in facial features. And yet that's not even 100% perfect, so now you have a bad technology for a negative purpose repurposed into another negative purpose that it's causing collateral damage with because it's as awful at that as the first thing.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Just pointing out I read that whole article and there was nothing in it to suggest that any countries are using it to attack LGBT people

    Dunno why you linked it instead of something more relevant

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Modern social media

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Emissions controller modifiers designed to "roll coal"

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago*

    Clickbait.

    Internet advertising.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Billionaire celebrities with millions of fans enabling their narcissism.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Anything cooking related. It all the same shit you already had but this time it's plastic, harder to clean and only does 1 specific thing.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Corporations are people?

    Trickle down economics?

    Nuclear weapons?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Microtransactions in video games. Hell, I'd say that modern video games in general are pretty bad, ESPECIALLY modern mobile games.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Too soon to tell, but I guess unregulated app-as-an-employer model is pretty bad.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Node Package Manager

    Cryptocoins

    Smartphones without keyboards

    Roblox

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    The Internet of Things

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    There's a lot of people who don't know when the 21st century began.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The generative AI's that "creates" content. Just dumb black boxes remixing what you give them, overconfident and inaccurate, yet seen as the ultimate tools by people.

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