Track_ShovelMar 9

Boredom is universal

https://slrpnk.net/post/35089361

Show threadrumbaMar 9

Hell yes, get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

If you can’t run out of content on the platform you’re on, it’s a bad thing.

Use youtube clients that follow users

Browse text platforms that let you follow communities.

TT, IG, /all, and shorts are where your brain goes to die.

Show threadTJA!Mar 9
Everything that’s on your phone has an algorithm. It’s like saying I don’t eat things with chemicals in it.
Show threadrumba
Ahh yes, the old “things are bad so we shouldn’t worry about making them any better” argument.
Mar 10 at 7:49amWeb
Show threadTJA!Mar 10

That’s not what I wrote. It’s just that they were complaining about the wrong thing. Algorithms are not bad, just how they are sometimes used is bad.

I don’t say " the sun is bad, we should get rid of the sun", when I get a sunburn. I will protect myself from this specific problem by other means ( sunscreen).

Show threadrumbaMar 11
Well I didn’t write anything about phones, I was talking about social media echo-chambers, but you took that there.
Show threadTJA!Mar 11

Okay then let’s get rid of the phone, it was just an example either way. Every program consists of algorithms, no matter where it is installed: in your phone, car or TV. In a street light, a digital thermometer or a smoke detector.

You wrote:

get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

If we do that, no digital thing will work anymore. It’s not just social media. Or phones. It’s everything.

Show threadrumbaMar 11

get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

you get my point, yet you refuse to get my point, we have nothing left here to discuss