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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)

submitted 7 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 points 7 months ago

To be fair to the algorithm, there may be a lot of people in your area who are just mainlining that shit 24/7 out of raw anxiety, and the algorithm is just feeding that.

I say "to be fair", because I think this horrific description of what the algo is doing to people's mental health is entirely accurate.