Tldw on solution is don’t interact with low effort content or rage bait, interact a lot with well crafted human content, unfollow or mute accounts that post low effort content, use the “show me less of this” or “not interested” on low effort content, and don’t use “for you” pages only look at content you chose to follow.
What I’ve been doing on YouTube for years. My YouTube algorithm keeps showing me unlimited stuff I want to watch and my Watch Later list is growing like a runaway train 😅
Yeah I don’t even sign in, so I don’t give it a chance to show me much other than what it gets from video association and profile fingerprinting.* I just bookmark videos that people post around and save them to a “TBW” folder
*which is actually so obvious because it’s like suggesting a video about 90s Doom wads on a video about mp3Tag? Google, have you been spying on me? They just can’t help themselves, they want my engagement.
What’s the point in curating the algorithm to your needs if you’re not going to use the “for you” page? If you only look at content you chose to follow then you’re not beholden to the algorithm at all, right? Seems counterintuitive.
They’re not designed to keep you misinformed and angry: they’re designed to keep you engaged…
Misinformed and angry is just a “happy” accident…
Yeah, OP is spreading misinformation. That makes me feel so angry!!
The disadvantage of lemmy is that you can’t do any of this shit. You can’t “hack the algorithm” if there is no “algorithm”.
I mean technically there is an algorithm which you can hack pretry easily, by sorting for “New” instead of “Hot” for example.
I highly recommend The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault, it is the magnum opus of contemporary philosophy and critical theory in terms of the phenomelogies of power.
Really helped me conceptualize politics at this moment.
Do you meand the archeology of knowledge?
Oui monsieur, my bad edited it. As someone who graduated in stem, I have a very easy time understanding natural or technical or economical causes and effects but loathe it when another person in my field speaks on politics or social groups since they almost always come off as bigoted or ignorant (often both).
I ve therefore been interested in the social sciences and humanities for a while as they are a pleasure to discover. I find philosophy and critical theory to be the best guides to understanding realities that fall outside of the bounds of one s rationality and Foucault’s concepts explain politics better than anyone else (aside maybe from Deleuze and Guittari in A Thousant Plateaus).
I think we have similar aspirations. I’m a stemer for the work and also just antisocial computer fetish, but I look at the humanities and their real discussions and wish we could have those conversations.
My field has become so financialized that we basically have a capitalist minder in any conversation that might approach philosophy, even if you’re sitting alone, the daemon is there with you.
I’d love to see the day where we clean house and boot the libertarian techbro moneymen out.
