An Explainer For Why I Don't Fuck With Algorithmic Social Media

An explainer for why I don't fuck with algorithmic social media

If you give a pigeon a little button to peck that releases pigeon food, it will push the button when it's hungry.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food every 5 pecks, it will peck it more often.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food at a randomly selected, always shifting number of pecks, the pigeon will peck that fucking button all day long.

Algorithm based social media is not set up to give you the best most fun stuff all the time, it is set up to give you a bunch of stress and nothingness with a randomized reward of something that actually makes you happy, because they want you pecking that button all damn day. It is a slot machine of content, meant to keep you putting in quarters made of your time and attention till you've nothing yet.

At least if I'm having a shit day on my own Tumblr home feed it's because I've made a bad choice about who to follow and I can fix it.

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doctoraljourneydba

4 months ago

Wow. So yeah, even people in the building immediately noticed what he did. He did what he did. Period.

Another angle for y'all 👌 with some refreshing commentary lmao

Elon: "[...] this one really mattered, and i just wanna say thank you for making it happen, thank you" *does nazi salute*

person behind camera: "that was weird as shit...yeah that - yo, that motherfucker just did the heil Hitler joint"

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doctoraljourneydba

4 months ago

Please repost for Luigi 🥰

"Your coverage of this event has been completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience"

Being able to see the part that the media cut out in the beginning makes a huge difference in understanding the context and message luigi mangione was trying to get across. Media manipulation at its finest.

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doctoraljourneydba

4 months ago

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donald trump 2024 presidential election america has failed us

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doctoraljourneydba

4 months ago

Yo, correct me if I am wrong please, but didn't Hitler rise to power because he promised to fix the German economy and people really liked that so they looked past everything else he was doing??? Like exactly what's happening in America right now???

So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he'd fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, "Isn't that what happened with fucking Hitler??"

But I've seen no one point that out so maybe I'm miss remembering???????

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doctoraljourneydba

4 months ago

Nothing could be more true.