the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high

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Oh yeah, im no stranger to blocking users and entire communities on this platform….there’s just usually the initial wave of whatever the new spam is until i can get my feed cleaned up again.

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Lol my mind went straight to thinking this was some type of apocalypse trend.

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No, I understood perfectly.
Capitalism causes apps to be shitty
But you don't understand that capitalism isn't the only reason that apps become shitty.

And out comes the big "algorithm" Boogeyman, decried by people who don't know what an algorithm is.

You know why it's easy to put down Lemmy? Because it does a horrifically shitty job at presenting you with new content that you're actually interested in. That it. That's the entire story. You're less addicted because it's less enjoyable. That is literally the entire thing.

Lemmy has all the parts needed for the same experience: an infinitely scrolling list of bite sized content. The only difference is that there is way less content here, and there is no discovery (meaning it keeps you in your own self-defined echo chamber).
Lemmy is a reddit clone, and if you're gonna tell me that people aren't addicted to reddit at similarly "dangerous" rates then I'ma full on call you a liar with my entire full chest.

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What about those people? They're mainly the aforementioned hypocrites.

You're worried about Tiktok privacy? Good, you should be. You should ALSO be worried about privacy everywhere else you go. Where is your concerned about Lemmy's privacy? People who think Lemmy is private are like the people who think that blockchain makes your transactions untraceable.

You're worried about being fed empty content? Ok I guess. Where is your concern about brainrot content on Lemmy? Nobody is being outraged by [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected].
And if you think all content on Tiktok (or most content presented to users) is like that, then that says more about whoever told you that than it does about Tiktok.

You seem more than happy enough to be a pig being fed by Lemmy.

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I immediately skip when I hear/see::

"Wait for it"
Overused trending meme music
Overused trending AI voice
Useless people pointing
Useless people in the corner
Split screen of irrelevant mobile game
Anything Stranger Things. I haven't caught up yet.

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Also the video cuts out ten seconds too soon to really rub it in

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Would you care to explain why and how is Lemmy feeding me? I'm not saying Lemmy is exempt of the bad kind of content and behaviour or even me getting addicted to social media(federated or otherwise), but it is surely not motivated to do so because it gains nothing from doing so. Last time I checked federated platform do not use algorithms to filter and sort content, do not show advertisements and so on.

Final question, what would one that has those corcerns have to do so that they would not be a hypocrite? Asking geniunely... Are you concerned about those things? And if so what have you done about it?

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I understand your point. I don't agree, but I see what you are getting at.

Addiction and enjoyment are not the same though. The millions of league of legends players are evidence enough of that

Either way, each to their own. I shall leave you to enjoy something you enjoy, but I still believe it is evil.

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So you're still ensnared by the useless red circle? Thank you, I'll update my AI content slop machine

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Lemmy is an infinite feed of empty bitesized content. It may not have a purpose in feeding you, but it does all the same. Or what do you mean by "feeding"? I interpret that as presenting you with the mental equivalent of empty calories. It's not motivated by ad money to do so, but that doesn't mean it's not motivated, or that it even needs motivation to do so. In fact, Lemmy is largely just a reddit clone, so simply by copying reddit it inherited many of the UX design choices.
All social networks, including federated platforms, use "algorithms" to surface content. The algorithm that Lemmy uses is very simple, but using a more complex algorithm is not inherently bad. People use "algorithm" as some kind of boogyman word without understanding it or considering what it means.

To not be a hypocrite you should treat all social networks with a similar critical eye. I'm not gonna say that they're all equally evil, but when you criticize something that other people like, then you should be willing and even eager to turn that same eye on the things you like.
I am concerned about those things. I do very little about it. It's a cost I just have to be aware of when I use these services. Specifically wrt social networks I stopped using the ones that don't bring me enjoyment.

Wrt Tiktok specifically, I find it less predatory than the other for profit platforms, but I don't blame people for not using it if they don't like it. I just check myself before I say anything elitist about social networks preferences