flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is
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2 months agoTo elaborate on what others have replied already, the algorithms will show you what will keep you on the platform, not what you like. Optimising for this means keeping you angry, not happy. Angry and divided people stick around so they can tell the other side how wrong they are (or watch their favourite pundit do that for them)
Sure, and just quit heroin while you’re at it.