• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Hell yes, get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

    If you can’t run out of content on the platform you’re on, it’s a bad thing.

    Use youtube clients that follow users

    Browse text platforms that let you follow communities.

    TT, IG, /all, and shorts are where your brain goes to die.

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      5 hours ago

      Everything that’s on your phone has an algorithm. It’s like saying I don’t eat things with chemicals in it.

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        4 hours ago

        Group chats with Friends? Games? Ebooks? There might be algorithms associated with those somewhere, but you’d have to go digging for them.

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          Chats: an algorithm decides the order of the messages shown Games: a lot of algorithms everywhere. Ebooks: eg algorithms are used to decode the drm of you are using a Kindle.

          You don’t need to dig very deep.

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      7 hours ago

      Great, now instead of just being bored, I get to manage three servers and two dozen public-facing services that I have to maintain for a growing number of users, along with the physical servers themselves, as any cog in this machine may break and burst into flames like a house of cards… and still be bored with the added stress.

      Yaaaaay, hobbies…

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    6 hours ago

    No, the tiger does not need “enrichment”, it needs to be set free. Do not accept being caged as the normal and don’t be gaslit into thinking the toys you get is “enrichment”.

    Reject the premise altogether.

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        3 hours ago

        I think so, yes.

        I have been posting things on websites that allow the general public to participate since my childhood, that is, for more than 20 years. At the time I was familiar with “forums”, slightly later also “wikis” and “blogs”… I have no idea why or even when exactly the world started to insist on that strange term “social media” to describe some poorly defined subset of such websites. 🤔