Not only tiktok. My parents are addicted to facebook stories and YouTube stories ;)
The same algorithm…
What is more there a lot of Russian propaganda and misinformation. But in Poland that’s common in social media
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Children are not the only ones being harmed here. This selective focus is only going to destroy the perception of other groups in terms of harm. Teenagers, young people, old people are also being harmed here - it is by design, and its everyone.
I never wanted TikTok for this reason, and I remember the damage YouTube did to my brother, despite my warnings.
He was happily watching Tree Happy Friends as a toddler.
Jesus, happy tree friends fucked me up and I was legally an adult
I enjoyed happy tree friends as a kid and it didn't effect me negatively. Different strokes for different folks I guess. It's like arguing that GTA makes kids violent.
I'm thinking, how are youtube shorts and Instagram reels any different from tiktok
Damn... money laundering though LIVE with its "gifts" I never thought about this. Everything else is wrong, at scale, but this surprised me.
If you watch a decent amount of twitch streaming it's pretty obvious. I'm sure there are a ton of whales out there willing to dump >$1000 in one go on a streamer, but just watch something like a "subathon", or a "hype train". You'll see more dollars than viewers they have move around in the span of like 30 minutes.
Or when streamers "bet" each other large amounts of gift subscriptions. That's explicitly money, and abstracting it behind subs only masks how damn much a lot of these "bets" are really for.
I'm not going to claim that anywhere near all of it is straight laundering, but it's pretty damn obvious just how fucking easy it would be to use it all for washing/tumbling of dirty funds.
They tried warning us about fb over 10 years ago and nothing happened
Then literally Web 2.0 is the problem. All social media stops existing if we go back from Web 2.0.
social media just needs http requests to exist, how does pre web 2.0 fix things honestly. gui apps have existed since windows 95 or even earlier
Just go back to gopher.
back then it wasn't about political independence from the US.
the EU has made a lot of noise in the last 2 weeks about getting off of US platforms. Here's a few examples:
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/
There's many more. The movement is significant.
I wouldn't say nothing happened. Young people migrated off of it and it's now the lead gasoline of the social media world
Yeah but young people didn’t migrate off it because it was harmful
They migrated in part to instagram which Facebook bought and made even more harmful than Facebook itself
Yeah ig is the worst part of Facebook, just people curating what they want people to think their life looks like
This is in stark contrast to...?
Facebook???
facebook has a very different target audience
facebook is mostly about 60+ year olds holding their beer and saying sth like "beer, car, church is all we need" while instagram is predatory on 16-y.o girls telling them that they're not pretty and worthy of love if they're not significantly (scarily, in fact) underweight and wear lots of makeup to cover their true emotions/face.
At least Facebook has Facebook Marketplace.
i mean yeah that helps the growth of idiocracy so is it a surprise?
The exact same thing happened with Instagram years ago.
and Facebook.
and MySpace.
and club penguin.
and...
It's starting to feel this whole capitalism for children isn't healthy.
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