Social media has become just has become just a large engagement farm.
What is happening with that title?
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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My mind skipped over the duplicate words until you pointed it out lol
Would you believe me if I told you that I don't know either?
Hey at least you admit it and seem to be doing okay. Just fyi you can edit titles on Lemmy.
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That looks like edition error for me. OP likely wrote something, then erased it halfway, then rewrote it, without noticing that he already wrote that part. I do this all the time.
Stroke.
Aight, I feel much better now. Now what about that title.
Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket. I myself, I jerk off at least twice a day.
Pfft, amateurs. This is my third time today and I gotta rub it against the carpet to arouse some feeling.
First it’s carpets then next thing you know you wake up after a two-month multi-country bender in an alley on a dumpster couch covered in love juices.
Oddly specific. Is there something you'd like to share? 👀
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No, it's not just an engagement farm. It's also an incredibly valuable tool for social engineers to manipulate public opinion. So there's that.
There's this other thing too.
Yes. Welcome to lemmy we like to think we are different because we are the rage isnt served to u by the algorithm its served to u by genuine dumbasses so u can get that much more angry at it.
Don't forget the mass manipulation of public opinion. There are a lot of players out there doing that all the time. From companies making ads that look like silly posts, and paying people or using bots to speak ill of the competition, to media agencies spreading fake news aiming at shifting people's political views.
This is also another aspect of it, true.
I think this is quite the popular opinion, even among people who enjoy social media. I feel many people just accept this is the current state of things. But yeah, the evolution happened as the stress to monetize increased, so anything to keep people on the platform.
If you post something that makes someone stay on platform long enough to see an ad or two, wonderful! The algorithm will bless you with exposure and the emptiness in your soul will be filled with likes.
Social media platforms want to make ad revenue, they need the audience to stick around and they will employ all kinds of psychological trickery to do so.
I think this is why Reddit/Lemmy is a great model. Even though "the algorithm" drives for engagement, it's still community based. Pick the communities you want to see and it's a radically different experience
And the algorithms for Lemmy seem simple enough in my experience. You sort by active to see what people are actually engaging in, sort by hot if you wanna see what's building momentum (not sure if that's actually it but that's what it feels like) and sort by new if you just wanna basically see internet stream of consciousness
Are you sure the correct term is evolution? /j
Oops I mean "the creationism happened".
/s of course
No, I meant regression.
Ah, no need for the "/j" then, that's just straight up facts!
The high-quality content is still there. It's just harder to find now. I don't use Twitter or Facebook (and Lemmy is like junk food for me) but I do read a few interesting blogs regularly and they often link to other interesting blogs.
Do you have any suggestions of how to find good content?
Agreed. Probably not unpopular? It's a big business now for sure focused on ads, propaganda, and money.