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Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health (news.utdallas.edu)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1365278/psychologists-say-that-social-media-algorithms-have-a-negative-influence-on-users-mental

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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This comment is not the slam dunk you think it is... Lemmy isn't owned by corp interests, it's not algorithm driven and it isn't 92% bots from fascists, oligarchs and foreign influence agencies. You can as much control as you want here. You can talk to actual people here.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Everyone has an agenda. Lemmy wasn’t created for shits and giggles. You don’t really know what’s under the hood, what posts and comments are encouraged, which ones have votes that are inflated. It’s an illusion to think otherwise.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I feel like I'm missing something here, but isn't knowing what's under the hood exactly the point of projects like Lemmy? The source is available on github, and they explain the algorithms or talk about their political bias pretty openly in most communities.

    Were you thinking more from the angle of the way our social biases work as a group, or like the risk of maintainers tampering with the sauce pre-release?

    I hope this didn't come across shitty - genuinely curious.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    If open forums on the internet don't have some filtering / steering they all too easily degenerate into YouTube comment sections, or worse. Lemmy seems to mostly be administered with a light touch, but I believe it - even more than Reddit - is sub-moderator driven in terms of what gets removed, what gets allowed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    You can join the Lemmy / ActivityPub developers' meetings via video chat anytime you like. I'm not "into" that level of things but I dropped in a few times just to see what's up - there's a definite axe or two they're grinding, not that they're bad people or out to hurt others at all, but if you don't detect some agenda basis from that crew, you need to think a layer deeper about what those people have been through and why they're doing something to make the world a better place in the future.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago

    I'm sorry to see comments like this mindlessly downvoted. While I don't agree that Lemmy was built with any ill intentions, this thread results in good discourse.

    For example, the platform itself lends itself to be used or abused to promote commercial interests or push one side of a story. The manner in which pro-Russian content has flooded Lemmy shows how the platform itself can be used to manipulate narratives, and there are no doubt many more subtle ways in which the community sentiment is being skewed in ways we might not realize.

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