Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
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half of the comments on some subs, if not the whole site of reddit are bots(mostly from countries like RU and Israel(if you are in a post specific to that region).
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This game is either “mafia” or “werewolves” in Poland. Really fun to play but it sucks how much real life mirrors it…
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Sure! We can do chronological, most liked, most disliked, most comments. Solid metrics though, nothing that the social media companies can obscure
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Are you three even old enough to remember an internet before the algorithms?
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It still exists in some places
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Perhaps dismantling the social media oligarchy by ensuring that companies cannot expand to sizes where they can influence policies? I'm open to ideas. Social media has become a huge psyop tool.
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That's why I'm here. Reddit stopped being interesting and became just political.
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We need to constaly audit algorithmic timelines. There cannot be "trade secrets" here.
It's not like code auditing is some magic were not capable of - its a multi billion industry perfectly capable of managing this task and we have all of the existing tools and frameworks for it.
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We just need fediverse awareness, I think the assumption is that these platforms cant be replaced or recreated, like ppl assume even the look is something that cant be remade elsewhere, or would cost a ton. People also need to give what the masses want if thats what they want, apparently mastodon avoided quote tweets forever because of bullying, I can not see myself using a microblogging platform without quoting, its probably the most importatn feature.
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And anything relating to gaza the comments are truly disgusting and disconnected from reality. Honestly all Reddit has become a battle ground of 80% hate and 10% people trying their best to fight back with another 10 not caring (in terms of commenters)
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Unfettered platforms such as Lemmy?
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its also the place where people get banned very easily, so i had to avoid those subs to avoid getting banned myself.
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It's blatantly obvious what they are doing.
I have a 10 year old company Twitter account I don't use anymore, and at some point they put suggested tweets in my notifications, which would usually be related to my industry because of the accounts I follow.
Now it's a constant barrage of Elon and Andrew Tate tweets... In my notifications... It's being forced down my throat, and I haven't engaged or even seen their content at any point in time. -
Absolutely. We're far from relevant so the bot / bad actor influx is probably negligible. Defederation won't protect anyone, they'll just use the major few instances and get access to 90% of feeds. Afaik points and account age don't matter, so bans don't matter. At this point, Lemmy has no defenses.
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I think it was Napoleon who said "Never distract your opponent while he's making mistakes"
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That's crazy. What happened to photoshopped instragram "models" and protein powder influencers? Is everything really just propaganda now??
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Só musk is getting ready to buy germany
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Sigh, the algorithms are controlled by likes, it has no idea the content is alt right. But they are nazis though so they obviously would want to and aren't stopping it
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What's stopping the likes being boosted by bots? And who's to say who's controlling the bots. Elon's Musks profile it has been suggested is mostly followed by bots. Now maybe that's a third party or maybe it's Elon himself doing that. More than one way to knowingly manipulate a algorithm artificially.
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Yup, lost my decade + old account, but it is what it is, another app to get off of
