Rob Eberhardt
Danielle ForéIt’s so frustrating how every algorithmic social network is constantly trying to feed you right wing Christian conservative bullshit and you have to actively fight it. No matter how much leftist content I engage with, no matter how much I block and click “not interested”, it’s like an infection that keeps coming back
And I know part of this is that people specifically pay to target right wing and Christian content at queer people which is fucking unhinged and should honestly be illegal
Rachel Rawlings@danirabbit I've thought about poisoning the DNS on Chick-fil-A's free Wi-Fi to send everyone looking for Christian mingle to Grindr.
Xie Lian's Big Naturals@LinuxAndYarn @danirabbit Tempting, for sure! Probably better to stay a fantasy, though - I’d be concerned about all these convenient targets the now-angry Christians would have with location info (physically near them!), pictures, etc.
Luna Lactea@LinuxAndYarn @danirabbit How would you even do that?
Matt Campbell@danirabbit I wonder if it would be practical to do the reverse, to pay to target queer-affirming content at people who are stuck in a right-wing Christian bubble.
ThunderstrikeIt's a good thought. I imagine it's a low return for the investment. There will only be a small percentage of people who even engage with it, sort of like how when you run a poll you have to contact at least four times the minimum sample size you need because only one in four people don't hang up on you. Religious organizations have no problem shovelling cash into the fire because faith, but it's a harder sell for other investors.
Ciara@danirabbit And the ironic thing is that they’re usually the ones complaining about being censored on social media 🤷♀️
Dei 🩷💛🩵@danirabbit aside from that, I can also see the algorithm being dumb and generalizing it to any political content, thus pushing right wing shit
Gemma 👽@danirabbit
I have a solution, which you may disagree with... But just leave the legacy social media? I mean, is it worth the hassle? 
I've been on FB, IG, 
in my time, and left it all behind. My only connections to meta are LinkedIn just for work but I'm never on it, and WA that I use for talking with friends.
OGJester has moved@prettyhuman I left the book of face for good last year, and I don’t miss it one bit. Highly recommended. @danirabbit
BillMarshall 🍁@danirabbit It's more than algorithms. Every academic/science related group I follow on facebook is being infiltrated by creationists , other biblical literalists and science deniers intent on derailing and disrupting discussion. It is succeeding in driving down legitimate participation.
travis@danirabbit this is *so* exhausting!
Nicole ParsonsIt is how propaganda works.
Imposing unwanted material on an unwilling audience.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691173429/how-propaganda-works
https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-pollsters-were-completely-and-utterly-wrong
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176268023000277
Alice Michelle@danirabbit major reason why I left Facebook entirely. My feed is nothing but conservative memes and anti-EV posts. The venn diagram of the right and being against electric vehicles is a weird one
SpaceLifeFormIf it is centralized, it can feed you propaganda.
This problem does not exist here.
Number1SummerJam@danirabbit the people who run those companies are complicit in this. They want trump and the fascist party to win so that they and their corporations can get bigger tax breaks. They are using their algorithms to either force right wing content, pro voter apathy content, or not show politics at all. They are essentially manipulating votes to get their way.
CohenTheBlue@Number1SummerJam @danirabbit I think the reason is much more mundane - hate gets more clicks and the algorithm is very basic. It just pushes stuff that gets clicks and / or watch time. Previous history has much less weight. Gotta show those ads and harvest data.
relogi@danirabbit
"It’s so frustrating how every algorithmic social network is constantly trying to feed you right wing Christian conservative bullshit and you have to actively fight it. No matter how much leftist content I engage with, no matter how much I block and click “not interested”, it’s like an infection that keeps coming back"
Like an infection? Is
Fahri Reza 🍉@danirabbit it is western neoliberalism, they can't have leftist discourse so something else will fill the vacuum.
Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE@danirabbit
The only way to not lose a rigged game, is to not play.
The only way to not lose a rigged game, is to not play.
Barbara Monaco@danirabbit I block a lot of ads for that shite. Despite that I continue to see the same ads, maybe even more of them. Beginning to think that blocking is an imaginary function on some platforms.
Mark Hughes@danirabbit
So leave. Tell your friends why and leave.
I've never seen this bullshit because I left years ago.
Ansgar Frej@danirabbit That and the algorithmic nature of most social networks makes it impossible to engage and try to counter those messages. Knowing just having messages of that ilk in my line of sight will lead to my timeline being inundated by so much more of the same, preserving what's left of my mental health essentially forces me to avoid any interaction at all. And so the siloing just becomes stronger...
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@danirabbit I can only stand using the social websites that still provide a strictly chronological timeline in reverse order. The only reason I still use Youtube is that I can use the subscriptions feed and pick my videos from there. I usually ignore any recommendations unless they're from my subscribed channels, which is probably why the algorithm mostly recommends videos I have already seen or that I am planning to see soon anyway.