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It's assumed that large centralized platforms make the problem worse but I'm really not too sure. When I first started using the internet, AIM was still all th
by 40acres 8y ago
It's assumed that large centralized platforms make the problem worse but I'm really not too sure.
When I first started using the internet, AIM was still all the rave. I'm not sure exactly how but I got into the habit of joining random chatrooms and messaging random people on AIM. As a minor I was under way more threat there than I think kidfluencers on YouTube are these days (..so many 'asl?' comments). The major difference was that advertisers were not on AIM.
Eventually I got deeper into the rabbit hole and started to see the underbelly of the internet, things were much more of a maze back then. Even today, knowing all I know about how to find the worst of the worst online -- I mainly stick to huge platforms, anecdotally it's a lot harder to get caught up in the maze online than it used to be. Maybe that's a good thing, everything is out in the open for these platforms to mitigate.
- mc32 8y agoI just hope it doesn’t begin infantilizjnv everyone where everything must gravitate toward “Kawaii” and have big bugeyes and have high pitched voices.
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- roywiggins 8y agoYouTube has a different maze, one that you only see if you start clicking on certain videos, and clicking on the suggested videos, and so on. It transforms itself into something darker, tailored specifically to you. > It seems as if you are never “hard core” enough for YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. It promotes, recommends and disseminates videos in a manner that appears to constantly up the stakes. Given its billion or so users, YouTube may be one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...
- krisrm 8y agoI think the constant advertising is a different kind of threat than being stalked by a chatroom random on AIM, though. And I can't really say which is "worse". The advertizing is legitimized and normalized by the entire system, from the content creators that make videos that are nothing more than thinly veiled ads, to Google's inability/unwillingness to properly moderate content.