A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 days ago

    It’s okay though because Zuck greased the Trump admin’s palms with his Presidential Library bribe, so they’ll get a slap on the wrist at best.

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    Fucking GOOD. We need these useless companies to fail out and be held responsible for their actions.

  • vogo13@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    Facebook helped to cause Arab Spring. These platforms are responsible for the destruction of civilization under the guise of “connecting everyone”.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      These platforms are responsible for the destruction of civilization under the guise of “connecting everyone”.

      CA discovered how to “hack” people’s minds, then maybe the Russians and Chinese figured it out, and the oligarchy and the lunatic fringe want all in to brainwash the world.

      Makes me angry knowing that at anytime a bigger war could break out.

  • Affidavit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    6 days ago

    What a bunch of nonsensical slop.

    Can we please hate billionaires without being absolute nincompoops?

    Please? You people are really making us look like fucking idiots.

      • Affidavit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        6 days ago

        Lemmy

        As in, I’ve had enough of this crap. The name is apt. What a bunch of fucking Lemmings.

        Reddit sucks. Lemmy is no better.

        Reckon I’ll just go without.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    7 days ago

    Disable YT history. Make YT Subscriptions page your home page. Now all you see are the most recent videos from your subscribed channels. You can keep up with them without being distracted by garbage suggestions. It’s a much better experience.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      I don’t know man… I found so many nice channels randomly… Kurzgesagt, science asylum so many great educational channels that just pop up

      • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        I just block the side-bar using Ublock Origin. Makes more room on the page and im not sold shit. If I want random videos ill hit the home page the post-screen after a video.

        Keeps my time down on the site by a lot.

  • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    7 days ago

    That lawsuit documents the case of a 19-year-old, K.G.M, who hopes the jury will agree that Meta and YouTube caused psychological harm by designing features like infinite scroll and autoplay to push her down a path that she alleged triggered depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidality.

    What the hell is everyone watching? YT recommends me Red Letter Media, Veratasium, old movies, Blender tutorials and a bunch of other stuff that’s never going to drive me to self-harm. I don’t understand. May be this woman doesn’t have ad blocker installed and is forced to sit through a bunch of soul crushing PSAs? Why is my experience so drastically different from this?

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Watching those hack frauds causes psychological harm. Rich Evans is known to trigger depression

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      7 days ago

      Algorithms try to push body negativity if it thinks you’re a teen girl because they tend to scroll more and buy more when depressed.

      If it thinks you’re a single man then it tries to push manosphere stuff.

      On YouTube I find I my relevant suggestions last about a month before I have to mark a bunch of videos as not interested or block a bunch of channels.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        7 days ago

        Yeah there was a period where it noticed I watched a few trans youtubers and so it started promoting anti trans content, it was around the election (I forget if before or after), but either way it disgusted me that they’d do that

      • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        Algorithms aren’t that smart. Maybe there needs to be general education about how they work so people will understand that viewing a video is like searching for a topic in google so people will understand how much control over what they see and use the technology appropriately.

        If you watch a video about anorexia that’s like typing “Anorexia” in Google or pressing 9 on a remote control, you’re getting channel 9. That’s why to me this sounds crazy. It’s like someone complaining their TV keeps pushing the cooking channel at them.

          • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            Sure, google knows I’m a 50+ year old man but YT isn’t pushing me a bunch of videos about retirement and how to keep the damn kids off my lawn. If I made a new account and it knew nothing about me, it might. But right now it knows I’m interested in obscure early 20th Century comic books and early 70s horror anthology shows.

            Edit:

            I misunderstood what you said. I use ad blocker so I don’t see ads. Sometimes they get through and it’s always Wix. That is kind of a mystery to me.

      • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        My youtube is used exclusively by my toddler, with me seeing about 10 videos a month. It pushes me AI generated sprunky and brainrot bullshit.