The article is satire but damn if it isn’t hard to tell if it’s real or not sometimes.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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Honestly every time I open Facebook some sponsored bullshit pops up with a bunch of incels bitching about a game being woke. Like I don’t care about video games, I don’t care about Steve Bannons bitchmade online whining gang, I don’t care about “woke” media or whatever. Why does Facebook try to force feed it to me? I’m not interested. So I just use lemmy now.
Anger and frustration is engagement.
Yeah but my anger and frustration comes from the algorithm trying to show me shit that I have zero interest in. It’s just annoying as shit watching these morons argue with each other over a new video game having too many or not enough gay characters. Who the fuck cares?
Steve Bannon and his ilk care. For every one of you and I that don’t click on the video there’s any number of people who do click on it and get radicalized further. Thats the whole point of “gamer” outrage online. To try and feed impressionable people right wing propaganda and push them further right. We dunk on it a lot in this community but it’s a real fucking problem.
Delete your Facebook, delete your Twitter, stop using Instagram. Get 2 of your friends to do the same. Starve the beast.
You know, advertisers treat these ad recommendation algorithms like the second coming, but they sure seem like junk to me too. Same with family members that don't bother with any privacy/tracking settings.
...Feels like a bubble waiting to pop. Like maybe all these hyper targeted ads are not as profitable as they're cracked up to be.
I don’t know, if you’re going by interaction the rage bait bullshit really seems to work on Facebook anyway.