• jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    There’s more “hard left” (not sure of that’s a porn category or a music genre) than fasch stuff on “social” media? Doubt.

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      2 months ago

      Well if you categorize everything that isn’t alt-right as hard left, it’s pretty believable. I mean hell, have you seen Wikipedia? Clearly hard left.

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        2 months ago

        The sad thing is that this is exactly how they think, have seen it myself, extremely “If you’re not with us you’re against us” mentality

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      2 months ago

      Considering the OP says the best social media places are the Nazi supporting ones…

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    2 months ago

    A bit strongly negative on phone use in general, but I’d say it’s a good overview of why most major social media websites (with algorithmic recommendations being a heavy handed component of one’s feed) are bad and why the traditional method (time-based sorting with subscriptions or feed curation) are better although not perfect.

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    2 months ago

    The only social media I consume is lemmy, and that’s only about 3 hours per day at most. I’m the happiest I’ve been in a long time. It was easy as soon as I started going for regular walks

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    2 months ago

    Additionally, Reddit and Substack are also good “social media” platforms, if what you care about is reading posts from people in the same community as you or people you have opted into receiving newsletters from.

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    2 months ago

    “The only social media you need is the comments section of this newsletter.” Know it was meant as a joke, but I kind of love how the author undercuts their entire essay entirely with literally the last line.

    The Gavin Newsome image was also clearly intended as a joke, and yet it seems the author missed that part entirely.

    Humor is hard.