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> Wasn't Facebook involved in an actual genocide[0]? Maybe its just the society evolving and engagement based algorithms accelerating it? The algorithms seem t
by rightbyte 3y ago
> Wasn't Facebook involved in an actual genocide[0]? Maybe its just the society evolving and engagement based algorithms accelerating it?
The algorithms seem to feed people what they like, so people with fringe ideas think they have a lot of support. Matched together with mob mentality, threaten and "downvote" dissenters, which makes the "downvoted" people believe they are fringe, I can easily see how Facebook at least increases the risk of genocide mobs, or any other obscene herd mentality action.
Like, people that are considered maniacs by their peers, can more easily find each other and organize, fundamentally. And the algorithm does it for them.
- mrtksn 3y agoMaybe its just that we as species are not able to act intelligently as large groups? Maybe we have tools to deal with bad actors in small groups but those tools don't exist in the artificial large networks? Maybe those networks are structured in such a way that we can't act in any other way and participate? Maybe being flamboyant hustler is the only succeeding strategy? I don't know but I' definitely not happy with the current state.
- rightbyte 3y agoI think it is more about not having moderates around to distinguish radicals and like make them chill. The "filter bubble" is working way faster than changing friends. A radical group seem to self-radicalize in isolation, putting "moderate radicals" away, making the cycle self-enforcing.