Sure, we’ve all seen this in practice and people have developed catchy terms for it, like echo chamber, but the polarization effect of social media has been demonstrated scientifically. In fact, some of us were warning about it a long time ago. And while I can no longer find my original documentation on the subject, I can tell you precisely how it works.
13 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 9 Jun
The engineers behind these apps are wickedly smart to keep your attention in them longer. I fear we will have a day where people are sucked into those apple goggles everywhere they go, not interacting directly with reality - rather a synthetic veil of it.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 10 Jun
The printing press was a polarization machine in the 1500
The Reformation was not possible without the printing press.
The printing press was a catalyst for religious wars in the 1600s
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 10 Jun
That;s the downstream effect of having an ad based business, newspapers and sites knew this ages ago, and that's how they drove their circulation, but they had to pick the things that trigger the most people.
Social it allows every trigger to find a niche and then feed it to the users, the moment you lost your chronological feed, you're at their mercy.
Sadly few people scroll and engage if they see pleasant news and messaging,
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kingzing131 10 Jun
I am giving up on a few of them, X literally feed me CCP kowtow accounts for no reason other than baiting me for activities
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BononXD 9 Jun
I admit that this is a fact and it can be seen, what's worse is that it leads young people like me to go to such extremes that the divisions only increase, in the future it may lead to the collapse of states due to social revolts, but this is still nothing worse, the problem will be when totalitarian governments will be they ruled us by taking advantage of our lack of understanding.
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