The algorithmic social media feeds on the big corporate platforms are still a major problem. I watch clips of old sitcoms and animal videos on YouTube and despite making vigorous use of the "do not recommend channel" button, I've been getting recommended "women getting owned" content and semen retention nonsense; I honestly don't even know what I clicked that would suggest that I'd be interested in that shit, but the algorithm is pretty clearly still pipelining men into the chud ecosystem and if they lack political experience and context, then it's very easy for them to get sucked in.
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If it's still causing you problems, try deleting your entire watch history and then immediately go and click on some of your favorite videos, topics, or interests and let the videos play for a while.
I had to do this once to stop being shown stuff I didn't want to see, and it seemed to help.
You're absolutely correct, though. Whatever you click on the algorithm will aggressively push similar content to you. If you aren't paying attention, it will happily shovel slop, and I can see why youth would be taken down an alt right rabbit hole.
That suggestion sounds like something that I should try. Thank you! 🦊
Edit: A couple days later after doing this and I can confidently say that this definitely cleaned up the feed a bit. Would recommend.
You're very welcome! Another tip I forgot to mention is to go into your settings and turn off auto-play videos. That setting might be mobile only? I can't remember off the top of my head, but I found that's how I started seeing stuff I didn't want to.
It was auto playing videos and sometimes would play a few seconds of something I had no interest in, and then try to show me more of that as a result. This should help!
There was a week or so where I kept getting pushed shock content that was really gross and this was what helped fix it for me.
In the future if you ever click on a video and realize you don't like it at all, you can go into your watch history and delete it there manually and it should help keep it from recommending similar videos too.
- What are we being asked to do to support women?
- Is their argument really just trickle down economics?
I honestly think the internet is a major component of the problem. People online are not good ambassadors of any perspective, and a lot of them are literally working in bot farms with the express purpose of making people stupider and more divided. Like, imagine if your only exposure to leftist thinking was some of the vote-spoiling, feckless, whiny, disingenuous garbage that was polluting Lemmy so heavily leading up to the election. How much of the internet is just that?
In the same way that internet brain-rot has caused the right to devolve into ever-escalating authoritarian bootlickery and snowballing racist, queerphobic, misogynistic bigotry, it's also influenced portions of the left away from solidarity and practical change into useless infighting, finger-wagging, and ideological self-congratulation. In an environment where even a lot of genuine posters who haven't been explicitly hired to destroy society seem to favor dunking on people over actually getting anything done, it's not really surprising to see the advancement of progressive ideologies backsliding even while many of the ideas they promote become more popularized.
We need better tactics. Maybe most importantly, we need to figure out a way to combat this divisiveness for hire that's infecting every corner of the internet by some other means than just bickering with trolls.
y'all we've failed gen z. we were so busy trying to afford not dying that we weren't around to teach them the way our elders taught us. that they don't understand what feminism is undermines class solidarity. but it's not too late to be having conversations about how the different aspects of this system of oppression keep us from succeeding. in fact, as the fascists crack down, this may be our last chance to get it all right
This we had better not include millennials. We have never held any power.
i'm a millenial. i'm not mad at us for gen z not knowing things. i know how powerless we've been. but right now we have to find ways to awaken gen z and gen alpha or we'll die
We're already past the terminus
Gen Z is in a VERY weird space around gender politics actually. There's a minor, unintentional sex strike going on, where Gen Z women lean strongly liberal and don't want to date conservatives, but Gen Z men lean conservative. The difficulty in finding like minded partners has led (many) young men to be even MORE reactionary and isolated, while Gen Z women are more sexually liberated, more likely to identify as queer and more likely to be open to dating women demographically than other generations of women. IDK if that sort of thing has a real precedent, but we do know that lots of sexually frustrated young men creates a dangerous situation.
Well, its weaponized now.
Its part of the agenda to make everyone weak and fight eachother instead of fighting the enormous corruption at the top or society.
Men and women have much more incommon with eachother than the rich owners of the plantation we are working.
Yep. Been saying for a minute Gen Z are the new boomers. Really fucked up.
BofA Deez!