I have a feeling that these companies will intentionally try to push low quality content to users who have turned it off, to motivate them to turn it back on.
Yeah turning off ad tracking gets you insane boner pill, fake health tricks, fake electrician tips, and all manner of shyster bullshit advertising from the lowest bidders if you ever load YouTube without an ad blocker.
I suspect the same will happen with this.
A platform that lets you only see people you anpprove and force opt-in to all others is probably a better plan.
A platform that lets you only see people you anpprove and force opt-in to all others is probably a better plan.
For me personally, this is the main appeal of Lemmy. I decide what I want to see.
On YouTube and Instagram, for instance, you do have channels you subscribe to, but the sites/apps show you a lot of other related content.
On YouTube I probably follow maybe 60 channels so that’s probably not enough content to show me everyday.
YouTube also has a tab where you can just see your subscriptions. So that’s kind of convenient.
That’s probably the only nice thing I can say about YouTube.
But on Instagram I follow a few hundred (400ish) accounts. . Mostly artist. Probably 50 are friends I know irl.
Yet most of what comes up in my feed is not these. I have to manually go look at my friends’s posts or I never see them. Same with favorite artist.
So “following” seems to mean jack shit on Instagram.
This. You can already have it on LinkedIn in the EU at least, “sort by recent” instead of “sort by relevant”. Imho its very effective, turns me off within 20 seconds instead of 5 min. If the effect works similarly on less cringe platforms, i can see this as a huge win for consumers.
But it opens up whole new interventions! Now we can have social media health campaigns that start with “right now, you can make this healthier. PUSH THE BUTTON!”
I have a feeling that these companies will intentionally try to push low quality content to users who have turned it off, to motivate them to turn it back on.
Cause that’s just the way these fuckers are.
so, same as now ?
Yeah turning off ad tracking gets you insane boner pill, fake health tricks, fake electrician tips, and all manner of shyster bullshit advertising from the lowest bidders if you ever load YouTube without an ad blocker.
I suspect the same will happen with this.
A platform that lets you only see people you anpprove and force opt-in to all others is probably a better plan.
For me personally, this is the main appeal of Lemmy. I decide what I want to see.
On YouTube and Instagram, for instance, you do have channels you subscribe to, but the sites/apps show you a lot of other related content.
On YouTube I probably follow maybe 60 channels so that’s probably not enough content to show me everyday.
YouTube also has a tab where you can just see your subscriptions. So that’s kind of convenient.
That’s probably the only nice thing I can say about YouTube.
But on Instagram I follow a few hundred (400ish) accounts. . Mostly artist. Probably 50 are friends I know irl.
Yet most of what comes up in my feed is not these. I have to manually go look at my friends’s posts or I never see them. Same with favorite artist.
So “following” seems to mean jack shit on Instagram.
Great, they should push as much low quality content as possible.
A lot of users would log off much more quickly, instead of switching to algorithmic
Yeah maybe. Assuming that’s the default. Because a lot of people are incapable of changing settings.
“No algorithm. Every post. Unfiltered. In chronological order.”
This. You can already have it on LinkedIn in the EU at least, “sort by recent” instead of “sort by relevant”. Imho its very effective, turns me off within 20 seconds instead of 5 min. If the effect works similarly on less cringe platforms, i can see this as a huge win for consumers.
or Mastodon
It needs to be the default state or else it is useless, most people will stay with what they already have out of familiarity and laziness.
But it opens up whole new interventions! Now we can have social media health campaigns that start with “right now, you can make this healthier. PUSH THE BUTTON!”