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It’s all of them, every single one. But tiktok is literally owned by a country known to interfere is elections, so it’s the most useful scapegoat. (And probably there’s some truth to it).
He’s literally the author of the great barrington declaration, and all these points are made in that book.
Basically he thinks we should never have had lockdowns and just gotten it overwith.
Never mind estimates that the lockdown saved a couple million lives.
He also doesn’t believe in Long COVID, and basically thinks disabled people just need to try harder.
He’ll be a disaster.
“Oh you’re disabled and can’t work”
Let’s make disability benefits super low, so you are unable to survive, thereby you have to “choose” euthanasia.
Even Lemmy was like this. Especially with the default comment sort “active”, which promotes comments that lead to arguments. My experience has been better since I switched to “top”.
I still haven’t found a good post sort that works for me. “Hot” and “Scaled” literally only promote stuff posted in the past two hours. “Top” is kinda sad because you always see posts 1 day old, and “Active” has the negative engagement problem.
The best solution I’ve found is be on an instance with downvotes disabled and sort by “active” but it isn’t perfect.
As soon as the algorithm become engagement based, instead of “positive reaction” based,
ie. algorithms now promote a post by how many reactions it has recieved, even if these reactions are negative, when it used to promote posts based on positive reaction.
So now ragebait dominates most social media algorithms.
Honestly I sometimes wonder it we’ve gotten to point where it’s too late.
Except for a couple exceptions, I feel like it’s infiltrated nearly everyone I know.
Really cool.
Thanks to Femke who put a lot of work in it.
Somewhere between gen-z and millenial here:
Financial success for me is having a home and food and medical care for me and my partner, and no, I am not convinced at all we will be able to sustain this
For mine and a lot of niches there is :).
This is one of these, he believes in 1 good thing out of 99 bad things kind of situation.
Similarly to how Trump believes im being skeptical and of China.
I don’t know.
I use microblogging platforms to connect with people who have my disability, which includes lots of cognitive problems.
So the current customisation and exploration effort it takes to set up a working mastodon account is too much for most people with my illness.
An optional algorithm would help.
It’s similar in JP.
The discover feed isn’t anywhere near the “for you feed” on X, so the experience isn’t super personalised and gravitates towards us politics, as that’s the most popular thing on the platform (similarly to lemmy).
Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.
Honestly that’s technically what’s been happening.
It’s not like the 50 billion in aid have been going towards producing new weapons, but its just the value of the unused ammo boxes, shells, tanks who were sitting around in warehouses, the US have been sending to ukraine.
Despite the predictable dumpster fire of a comment section sharing this would inevitably lead too, I’m glad you shared it, it was a pleasant read.
Medical gaslighting as a mechanism for medical trauma: case studies and analysis, Shapiro, Hayburn, 2024
Being dismissed or disparaged by medical professionals can be shocking and demoralizing for patients, leading to unnecessary harms (e.g., avoidance of medical treatment; depression; shame). This difficulty is further compounded when patients are also the target of wide-ranging stigmatization due to ...
Just wanted to share here because I know a lot of us have gone through gaslighting from the medical system which often results in extensive trauma.
You are not alone. And this study shows it.
Coyote
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Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18813291
> Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
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'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28363968
> > French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.
Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Reddit
don’t know if this is the best community to post in but interesting.
Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.
No matter which sort you use (except for new), content is recommended to you by activity. Depending on the sort (active, hot, top) it uses a slightly different mixture of votes/comments/time since post to determine the order.
The only exception is scaled, which boosts a little bit midsized communities, but still doesn’t manage to improve visibility of niche ones.
If lemmy is to truly start having active hobbyist communities instead of being 95% lefty US politics, Shitposts, and some tech stuff, it needs a sort that takes into account the user’s engagement.
For example, if I upvote / comment often in a community, there should be an option to have posts from the community be boosted in my feed, even if it’s a tiny community.
Let’s say I’m subscribed to !world@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world because I want to occasionally see news. However, I’m also subscribed to a couple hundred other communities, some of them who don’t manage to get more than a couple upvotes on their biggest posts. And whenever I see them I’m replying/upvoting because I’m passionate about that topic.
My feed shouldn’t be 95% c/news and c/world because those are the most upvoted and commented. I shouldn’t have to scroll down hundreds of posts to find “big” posts in small communities I interact with at any opportunity I get.
That’s why I think it would be beneficial to lemmy if the sort/algorithm took into account your engagement in a way.
It doesn’t have to be complicated, you can have a single number “engagement score” for every community calculated with a basic formula, and that number is used as a boost to the community.
I’m aware that there are some examples of successful niche communities on lemmy. But that’s mainly because either a significant chunk of the lemmy userbase is into that niche (let’s face it the lemmy community is not a representative sample of the world population, we tend to be very similar people), or because the posts on it are simplified image/video type posts which appeal to people who don’t know much about the subject.
Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe
This petition introduces the campaign for the ban of Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in the European Union.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4853884
> cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4853256 > > > To whom it may concern.
Are there any search engines where you can artificially choose which websites appear higher and lower in results?
I don’t mean like a closed algorithm.
I mean like a search engine I could tell: I want you to downgrade [healthline.com] and push it lower down in results. Or I want you to “upgrade” [arstechnica] and show it higher in results.
etc