• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That’s not just Lemmy, it’s all of social media that isn’t focused on people’s self-promotion (Instagram, LinkedIn etc). The leftist stuff is fairly accurate, but that’s not a big deal to me.

    Social media algorithms have driven the content engagement, and they figured out that controversy and anger drives the most engagement, so that’s what the algorithms tend to push to drive engagement, to get more ad revenue and data from people spending more time on their platforms.

    • livus@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      @RaoulDook I don’t think we have that kind of algorithm here, thankfully.

      The person you’re replying to fundamentally misunderstood my comment though.