I think they do it because getting you to go to the thing is the point, not watch the thing. Once you’ve gone to the thing they just want you to go to the next thing. Watching the thing is just wasted time for them.
It probably has to do with maximizing your exposure to advertising.
I think it’s the power of social media. People living in echo chambers. Their minds are turning into perfect crystal. Full of all the right ideas. Full of certainty about what’s right and wrong, real and unreal. Perfect and logical yet constrained to a tiny box. Brittle. Vulnerable to cracking at the smallest shock.
I have had similar thoughts.
Consider, a really nice ideology. Full of politeness, good behavior, acceptance, tolerance, liberality and positive ideas.
But the ideology is transmitted via powerful propaganda, threats, conformity and totalitarian stuff.
So it isn’t actually so nice.
I’ve been told that everything is political. Which is nuts.
Ya, I’ve considered it. My enthusiasm ain’t there anymore tho. There are members way more enthusiastic than me. I assume that they are aware of Lemmy. I’ll mention it to them. They have a discord too.
It’s generative art. That’s the subject. A population of good prometheuses. /r/generative
Sounds right. And then we notice, and then they spin things to keep it happy. The spin… oh probably to fight the bad politics of the hour. For your health and such. That’s always works.
I made a sub that got popular (in its niche). Good people. Little drama. Productive everything. For like 4 years. Then suddenly it’s dying. Posts have dropped to 5% prior. I see no leeching competitors. I’m thinking maybe something deep is happening to reddit. Like organ failure. Or brain parasite.
The chick with the glasses in 2 or those. Staring eyes and bared teeth. Do you think she’s hot? Could we get a full body pic?
What’s a good ism? Classism? Behaviorism? Shapeism? I mean, upon what observable trait is it ok to base a judgment?
If the original ban was stupid then ban evasion isn’t actually ban evasion.
What you’re describing is a game that, win or lose, you always lose, just by playing. That’s a fucked up game.
Every aristocrat ever has wanted reddit. A mind-control/spy/circus. To keep the underclasses in control. It’s only going to become more popular. Gradually replacing all other forms of communication. Eventually mandatory.
Could moderation be handled democratically with votes and such? Create a system with central authority and you’ll just get people trying to be the central authority.
I heard that 99% of the internet traffic is marketing bots fucking each other
Saturn devouring his son, with reddit snoovitars
Somebody with midjourney skills needs to do that
It’s got viral potency
It’s people and society. Centralized control doesn’t work. A better moderation system would let the individual manage his own filtering, instead of being involuntarily “helped”.
Democracy is clearly the only proper way to manage a society, yet we continue to use totalitarian dictators. Weird.
Reddit is the best thing to ever happen to big governments. It’s wonderful for mind-control and surveillance. They are subsidized by the intelligence apparatus of USA, China, Great Britain and lots of other countries.