Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
-
I think it's a mix of these algorithms favouring things that get you to spend a lot of time on their apps and those things happen to be things like conspiracies, emotional appeals, and get rich quick schemes.
Think of a person that spends an unhealthy amount of time on social media. That's their ideal user and they are constantly trying to funnel their users down paths that lead them into becoming that person.
-
That seems to be the most logical explanation, indeed.
-
What about IG? Every single sponsored post is some kind of grift: zionism, religion, prosperity gospel, scientology. It's nonstop right-wing garbage.
-
What if I want to install my own algorithm on a Pixelfed feed? What if developers make a variety of competing, open source algorithms? Y'all gonna ban all those "algorithms" too? Be careful of calling for state violence to impose your vague opinions.
-
Never blame on a conspiracy what is better explained by capitalism.
-
If you were to relate this to tiktok, how would you ever find people to follow?
-
Making a video sharing app which isn't based as much around a single algorithmic feed?
-
The same way we used to? Tags and the ability to search for things, along with word of mouth from your friends and media you follow.
Even before the internet, people found new things like music or books by interacting with those communities, looking in places where those things can be found and finding stuff they like.
We don't need some algorithm to spoon feed us things it wants us to like, we can find it ourselves with minimal effort.
-
IDK I really liked StumbleUpon even before all this stuff was invented... Sometimes you don't know what you like or what to find things that would normally be outside of your bubble.
-
There's a German game called Wolf. Where two people are the wolf and the rest are the villagers. Each turn the two wolves open their eyes and pick a villager to kill, while the villagers keep their eyes shut. Then everyone guesses who the wolves are. If both wolves are caught, the game is over. Almost always, the wolves win.
Moral of the story, an informed minority will almost always defeat an uninformed majority.
I hope it doesn't come to this in Germany..
-
StumbleUpon started out being completely random, so it wasn't driven by mining your cookies and feeding the data into an algorithm. I don't know if it eventually became a nefarious advertising front, but I recall it being pretty innocent. Anyway, I really enjoyed that website before link aggregators rose to such dominance.
-
God i love the tag feature on boost for lemmy
-
Interesting, in the USA we call that game “warewolf”.
-
Don’t forget all the ads for weapons and drugs!
-
Yeah well TikTok was "saved" by Trump and a right winger has a 14% share. I've definitely seen more questionable comments and videos since it got "saved".
-
In Germany, we also call this game 'werewolf'. Never heard of 'wolf' alone, except for the animal.
-
Reddit killed Stumbleupon for me, that's how I discovered it to be honest. Before then I'd used Digg but that got killed with new Digg
-
Das ist so
I just shortened it, because I wasn't sure english speakers would know the word -
God i love the tag feature on voyager for lemmy
-
Yes, this is interesting! 'Wer' (meaning 'man') came from Old High German with the Anglo Saxons 1,500 years ago, and was part of Old English. It then became 'were' in Middle English and remains as part of werewolf ('man wolf') in modern English.
