Welp, you’ve summed up what I’ve been thinking for a while. I don’t know if it is really a Lemmy thing, pessimistically informed folks, or just the Internet. It’s probably all of them. I know pretty much exactly what OP is referring and have no answers.
Edit: strike through; and on further thought, this is basically more or less the same complaint I had about imgur. They’re seem/seemed pretty insular and quite an echo chamber. It seemed to me that if your weren’t one of the annointed ones, you were a dirty peasant whose posts would never leave user sub, a place only visited by those who hate themselves. And there is a lot of nonsense in there. But comments wise, it’s basically the same. “Oh, you liked that video of a cat/dog/animal? How dare you, did you know x, y , z? No? Well now you do do you can feel bad about it.”
And the politics is similar. I remember seeing posts about the 2020 election and how the Marrieta, GA voting was very slow, i.e., the lines were very long and some folks waited 8+ hours. And of course the majority of comments were about how “this is voter suppression!!1!!”. Except I was there. It was just a really big turn out. Really big turn out. But, sure, it’s was voter suppression . Didn’t matter that I was there.
So, yeah, to whoever way up at the top that mentioned it’s really not just algorithms, but people using these things/social media in general: totally agree.
Also, if you happen to be reading this, what are you doing? Why are you down this far? Don’t you know you’re only supposed to read the top 3 comments and form.your opinion from there? And, if you read OP’s post and somehow are reading this, what are you even doing? You’re not supposed to read the whole thing! Headline, first comment, echo dissent, move on.
Welp, you’ve summed up what I’ve been thinking for a while.
I don’t know if it is really a Lemmy thing, pessimistically informed folks, or just the Internet.It’s probably all of them. I know pretty much exactly what OP is referring and have no answers.Edit: strike through; and on further thought, this is basically more or less the same complaint I had about imgur. They’re seem/seemed pretty insular and quite an echo chamber. It seemed to me that if your weren’t one of the annointed ones, you were a dirty peasant whose posts would never leave user sub, a place only visited by those who hate themselves. And there is a lot of nonsense in there. But comments wise, it’s basically the same. “Oh, you liked that video of a cat/dog/animal? How dare you, did you know x, y , z? No? Well now you do do you can feel bad about it.”
And the politics is similar. I remember seeing posts about the 2020 election and how the Marrieta, GA voting was very slow, i.e., the lines were very long and some folks waited 8+ hours. And of course the majority of comments were about how “this is voter suppression!!1!!”. Except I was there. It was just a really big turn out. Really big turn out. But, sure, it’s was voter suppression . Didn’t matter that I was there.
So, yeah, to whoever way up at the top that mentioned it’s really not just algorithms, but people using these things/social media in general: totally agree.
Also, if you happen to be reading this, what are you doing? Why are you down this far? Don’t you know you’re only supposed to read the top 3 comments and form.your opinion from there? And, if you read OP’s post and somehow are reading this, what are you even doing? You’re not supposed to read the whole thing! Headline, first comment, echo dissent, move on.