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The day after the invasion, I was flabbergasted by how much people don’t give a sht. My Twitter feed was (and still is) people announcing their new ventures, do

by bnt 5y ago

The day after the invasion, I was flabbergasted by how much people don’t give a sht. My Twitter feed was (and still is) people announcing their new ventures, doing their usual marketing, posting their vacay pics etc. Social media destroyed humanity. I deleted my Reddit after 14 years after I saw pics of burned bodies from Ukraine on a random SFW sub with folks making fun of people dying. Fuk this war and all who think it’s not their business.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> The day after the invasion, I was flabbergasted by how much people don’t give a sht. My Twitter feed was (and still is) people announcing their new ventures, doing their usual marketing, posting their vacay pics etc. Your Twitter feed reflects your active choices in who to follow and what to interact with. My Twitter feed has been largely dominated with the invasion since it occurred (though there are a couple other things that are also notable still).
- bnt 5y ago
  Valid point, but the lack of empathy among the people I follow is concerning.
  - ars 5y ago
    Your feed reflects you. If you find it concerning, then you need to make a change in who you follow. I've seen people complain about YouTube for example - they eventually realize that what YouTube recommends is what they watch. If they want better recommends, they need to watch different things.
    - areeh 5y ago
      I'm not sure how Twitter works, but for YouTube it's not like their recommendation system is a perfect user-friendly algorithm. While it is your choice what to click, what you end up watching is a result of the interplay between you and what is recommended to you and if the recommendation system was different, both what you click and the resulting feed would be different as well
      - ars 5y ago
        Experimented with this on YouTube. My recommendations are exactly the things that I watched. In fact I got kind of bored because I wanted something new and different, instead I just get more videos of exactly the same type. If I stop watching a certain kind of video it eventually stops showing up on the recommendations.
tim333 5y ago
>Social media destroyed humanity It's also getting the word out really quickly. There's good and bad. At least it's not getting covered up for years like the last major Russia on Ukraine atrocity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

by bnt 5y ago

dragonwriter 5y ago

> The day after the invasion, I was flabbergasted by how much people don’t give a sht. My Twitter feed was (and still is) people announcing their new ventures, doing their usual marketing, posting their vacay pics etc. Your Twitter feed reflects your active choices in who to follow and what to interact with. My Twitter feed has been largely dominated with the invasion since it occurred (though there are a couple other things that are also notable still).

bnt 5y ago
Valid point, but the lack of empathy among the people I follow is concerning.
- ars 5y ago
  Your feed reflects you. If you find it concerning, then you need to make a change in who you follow. I've seen people complain about YouTube for example - they eventually realize that what YouTube recommends is what they watch. If they want better recommends, they need to watch different things.
  - areeh 5y ago
    I'm not sure how Twitter works, but for YouTube it's not like their recommendation system is a perfect user-friendly algorithm. While it is your choice what to click, what you end up watching is a result of the interplay between you and what is recommended to you and if the recommendation system was different, both what you click and the resulting feed would be different as well
    - ars 5y ago
      Experimented with this on YouTube. My recommendations are exactly the things that I watched. In fact I got kind of bored because I wanted something new and different, instead I just get more videos of exactly the same type. If I stop watching a certain kind of video it eventually stops showing up on the recommendations.

tim333 5y ago

>Social media destroyed humanity It's also getting the word out really quickly. There's good and bad. At least it's not getting covered up for years like the last major Russia on Ukraine atrocity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor