People searching for a means of connecting with a community is a negative thing since when? Better to look at the source of their feelings of alienation outside of the internet and point the finger at that instead of flippantly dismissing people using social media from a social media platform.
LOL Good job injecting your narrative into something completely unrelated.
These platforms would not be as successful if they were just about offering a nice place for friends to congregate. If that were the case, Myspace would still be relevant and forums would still be more active than FB and Reddit.
Here we are on Lemmy - free of ads and algorithms and corporate control. If it was all about people searching for means of connection, what aren’t more people here?
Because the corporations have created an algorithm to maintain engagement to show you ads. Engagement is driven by strong emotions. Strong emotions are created by chemical reactions in your brain. What you’re being shown on corporate controlled social media is what they know will keep the chemicals flowing aggressively around in your grey matter.
People have been alienated for millennia. The internet has existed and has been embracing outcasts for over 40 years. I would suggest that you take a step back and consider why people are choosing one platform over another and what differentiates the platforms from one another.
This is a case where people are so occupied with a platform proven to threaten their nation’s national security and their own perception of reality that they would choose to embrace that foreign adversary over their own country. If that’s not an addiction, I don’t know what is.
I hope you find a place of peace to congregate with others who make you feel known. Corporate controlled social media should have never been that place.
People searching for a means of connecting with a community is a negative thing since when? Better to look at the source of their feelings of alienation outside of the internet and point the finger at that instead of flippantly dismissing people using social media from a social media platform.
LOL Good job injecting your narrative into something completely unrelated.
These platforms would not be as successful if they were just about offering a nice place for friends to congregate. If that were the case, Myspace would still be relevant and forums would still be more active than FB and Reddit.
Here we are on Lemmy - free of ads and algorithms and corporate control. If it was all about people searching for means of connection, what aren’t more people here?
Because the corporations have created an algorithm to maintain engagement to show you ads. Engagement is driven by strong emotions. Strong emotions are created by chemical reactions in your brain. What you’re being shown on corporate controlled social media is what they know will keep the chemicals flowing aggressively around in your grey matter.
People have been alienated for millennia. The internet has existed and has been embracing outcasts for over 40 years. I would suggest that you take a step back and consider why people are choosing one platform over another and what differentiates the platforms from one another.
This is a case where people are so occupied with a platform proven to threaten their nation’s national security and their own perception of reality that they would choose to embrace that foreign adversary over their own country. If that’s not an addiction, I don’t know what is.
I hope you find a place of peace to congregate with others who make you feel known. Corporate controlled social media should have never been that place.