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.
Cardboard is a good insulator, it absorbs moisture and its smell is likely to be instinctively associated with safety. Cardboard->wood->trees, a good place to take a nap without getting disturbed. And I bet that paper shares some qualities with leaves too, it sounds and feels similar when walking over it. She knows what’s good!
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.
Splendid!
I mean… it’s a nice distraction from what’s going on here in Europe. Sort of escapism if you want.
Love is a parasite. I knew it!
All that is available. Garbage in, garbage out. Great for garbage people.
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!
The saddest part about it is that it’s still way smarter and better educated than its (human) users.
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.
The good take care of the evil. The evil take care of the stupid. The stupid take care of the good. A perfect loop.
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.
…yet.