Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
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Never blame on a conspiracy what is better explained by capitalism.
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If you were to relate this to tiktok, how would you ever find people to follow?
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Making a video sharing app which isn't based as much around a single algorithmic feed?
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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.
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God i love the tag feature on boost for lemmy
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Interesting, in the USA we call that game “warewolf”.
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Don’t forget all the ads for weapons and drugs!
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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".
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In Germany, we also call this game 'werewolf'. Never heard of 'wolf' alone, except for the animal.
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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
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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
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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.
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That's wild actually, love learning the history behind words. Did you know that very fun fact from the top of your head?
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What if people really want to see that stuff, though?
We're doing more harm than good when we try to control what people think instead of including them in the discussion.
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TikTok is also run by the CCP who absolutely do want western nations to be ruled by people like Trump. The more turmoil the better, in their eyes.
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Anybody voting for anti-tax racist fascists is voting against their own interests, including anti-tax racist fascists themselves.
