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Yes, kind of. But each platform's mechanics encourage certain behaviours over others. The Twitter website (not the culture of it's users), as an advertising-fu
by madeofpalk 3y ago
Yes, kind of.
But each platform's mechanics encourage certain behaviours over others. The Twitter website (not the culture of it's users), as an advertising-funded platform, is highly geared to optimise for 'engagement', which encourages all of these behaviours.
- sph 3y agoI would have agreed until the explosion of Mastodon, where it's become apparent that even without engagement algorithms, the culture wars and other nonsense are thriving on that platform as well. We blamed the Algorithm, but perhaps the issue was the users all along.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoHere's how I see it. Maybe "the algorithm" was the problem initially, but the problem has since metastasised into every aspect of American culture, and so removing the original tumour is no longer as helpful.
- itsoktocry 3y ago>We blamed the Algorithm, but perhaps the issue was the users all along. always-has-been.jpg It's one of the strangest things about the meta-conversation regarding social media. The "left" (I'll use quotes because these things aren't strictly defined) thinks that, for example, anti-immigration sentiment or support for Trump comes from "Russian bot farms" fooling the public. It's unfathomable to some people that smart, good, hard-working people could hold those views.