The circlejerk symbol on the bottom right is a bit weird, but doable.
Our garbage in this case
Even if fedi was pure and perfect, it still exists within a wider ecosystem of algo-driven rage and it’s influence leaks in from every side. It’s not just that we don’t exclusively get our news from the fedi it’s that news articles themselves are optimized for rage, the writers are deeply under it’s spell, politician’s media strategy is optimized for it.
And those who buck the system are fired.
… or worse.
They don’t get cookies:(
Well damn, now I want to know just how good those cookies must be…
Also, username does not check out, unless there is cheese in those cookies, perhaps? 🧀
Perhaps…
True, there’s definitely that. I guess I just wish there was more thought between that and “do I really need to post this?”
Just don’t go full regard
Average fediverse interaction
We have very different fedi interactions. Have a nice day!
Fuck you, have a nice day! You lovely asshole!
Have a nice fuck you day!
Just like mama used to make
The thing is, this 100% organic rage is OUR rage, not the rage of our supposed technofeudal overlords.
My ragebait is vegan, so you can get mad guilt free.
> Veganism is abstainment from, as far as is possible and practicable, the exploitation of animals for any purpose.
> Editable meme templates are “exploitables”.
> Memes with animals are animal exploitation.
> These are therefore not vegan and hereby banned from /c/[email protected].
Everything is banned on c/vegan.
Can’t even post a nice steak there.
Carnist Troll detected
Nice. My ragebait is mostly solar powered so also largely guilt free.
But is it gluten free? I’m MAD!
I just like it when people post the sandwiches
One of my favorite subreddits back when posting photoshopped pictures of birds with arms was all the rage was /r/notbirdswitharms which was a sub where you couldn’t not just post birds with arms, you couldn’t post anything that wasn’t a sandwich
So, like a club?
Thanks guys. This entire thread is killing me.
It’s easy to blame “the algorithm” for our divisiveness. Much harder to accept that the algorithm does that because it amplifies flaws in human nature.
It is fairly easy to accept that it is just amplifying human nature. The main issue is that with the major locked down aggregators the amplification is intentional and continuously changed to increase the amplification by doing things like stuffing divisive posts into feeds.
because it amplifies flaws in human nature.
It might be amplifying already existing traits, but that doesn’t excuse it. It’s still damaging to society at large
Hell yeah! But don’t forget the beans
Sadly this is not true. We do have a recommendation system, called Top. And it spamms me with enraging american politics when I go to All.
What if I told you that you don’t have to do that?
If it is Top, then that is what people are choosing to upvote. But you don’t have to browse by Top. PieFed even offers keyword filters, plus the ability to unsubscribe from all such communities while also allowing you to see them with just the touch of a button to go to a Topic Feed showing it when you (rarely) actually do want it. You could also replicate this behavior in Lemmy, but it takes having one account per Internet area and that’s a huge pain. Or you could just sort by New. Or block the users submitting such content. The list of configuration options available to you is practically endless, and nowhere explained in the slightest degree that would be helpful:-).
[email protected] does a pretty good job of keeping that stuff out.
I prefer “scaled”, which is even more like a recommendation system.
I prefer “new”.
There are algorithms driving too, just disguised as ‘users’.
Fewer here than there though (presumably).
I mean things like GIFT are always going to be with us but this feels like the normal level of being angry at idiots on the internet versus turbo corpo enshittification
GIFT: Get It Fucking Together or is there another acronym you mean?
Posting current events in the appropriate communities should not be considered “rage”. People deserve to be informed and have the ability to plan for the future.
What you are doing is essentially raging against the news.
