I left my final mainstream social media with the Reddit API debacle back in 2023. And before that, I left Facebook and Twitter in 2018.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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I can only say that I'm all the better after removing them all from my life. My mental health has improved dramatically since then.
lemmy has taught me that any platform that touts itself as "general interest" is suspicious because it means that they have an interest attracting as many people as possible regardless of whether or not there's any reason for them to be on there.
like today's tech companies; they want you to become dependent to some degree on their platform to use your attention as leverage for advertisements and investors so that you'll be less likely to leave the platform.
another revenue stream that they leverage your captive attention for is for data harvesting and you need lots of people to make it worthwhile (hence the "general interest") and when that happens, your employers; HRIS/candidate tracking systems; and your government can also purchase that data too and know what you're up to like in the examples that this article shows.
I keep pushing as many people as possible in my life away from all these dangers (I genuinely consider them actual dangers) precisely because of that. It's mind blowing how most people just don't care, until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don't even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.
... until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.
the most recent version i've seen of this are my colleague software developers who don't give a rat's ass about the impact that their work is doing so long as they keep getting paid almost a quarter of a millions dollars per year to pay for their investments and put their children is the best possible schools.
i think that external pressures will always force a person-vs-person conflict like your and my example to enable the goals of the platform.
I guess that's the price we pay for living in a mostly capitalist world. It sucks though. At least I've been able to keep my kids out of those things for 11 and 9 years. That alone I consider a win.
it is and it's the most that you can do given our situation.
Wtf is this page
Keep scrolling below to see how the employee responded to all this nonsense.
I actually did, you have to scroll for like a minute past comments (?) and ads to see the rest of this "article". Wow, hello future entry on my block list.
I always move straight to the screen shots. These are feeds I get via RSS, so I never actually "browse" that site.
i didn't encounter any adds; are you using ublock origin? chrome?
I checked again and you are right, what I saw was just some other article images. I do use ublock so I should have been tipped off that those shouldn't be ads. Still the rest is true and cutting an article for some weird kind of user engagement is very silly.
yes, it's old news to me and probably you; but i think it bares repeating since there will always be someone who didn't already know.