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  • catbum@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    My guess is they don’t want data scientist types to find trends pointing to the possible “moderation” of viral posts of a certain political potency, not to make them more popular, but to suppress or wholly censor something impactful from being spread further. Censorship. I mean censorship.

    It just wouldn’t surprise me if posts that started being shared at an explosive rate for insert highly-affecting thing here were quietly “turned off” for many an audience’s algorithm at some point by meddlesome human hands. The public having this data could reveal that or other types of manipulation when compared to other platforms, in aggregate, etc.

    But idk, not a data doctor


  • I really appreciate that about lemmy.

    Comments shot from the hip don’t shoot to the top and stay there.

    A lot of these communities automatically sort by new, at least when it’s not very populated, or by the so-called hot or active comment sorts. They seem to have a better (less biased?) algorithm in general, even if that means I see something so stale or unengaging that I ask myself why they bothered in the first place. It takes all kinds though.

    Still, to me, that sorting practice helps more nuanced, variably informed comments get decent air time. Ya gotta scroll it before you dole amirite?




  • Holy f u c k .

    All of what follows from me here is completely speculative based on the article summary and your very, very insightful, horrifying addition.

    The “Supreme Court” doing a “good thing” in frankly both maga and non-maga groups’ eyes would basically be them attempting to placate the masses with a contrived hope for relief and, perhaps, a false sense of governmental integrity.

    Maybe the SEC now maintains a way sharper grip on publicly trading companies for some reason, idk like some weird fasc-on-fasc rank enforcement shit. Or maybe taxes. Probably bribes. Anyway the corps are possibly being “urged” to steady their prices, giving us folks a wee break in this economical trainwreck, as “proof” that “returning” the tariffs helped in some way.

    I mean, with the number of companies bending the goddamn knee in the stupidest ways, you have to wonder if they weren’t, ahem, “targeted,” in some additional way. I’ll bet in some way, the corps ran the numbers and figured they’d stand to lose less money shedding DEI supporters than whatever they’ve been told they stood, or still stand, to lose.

    Honestly at this point I think all these rich and/or bought mfers in top fed positions are just creating their golden parachutes, like any good CEO would really, before the bottom drops out. Before the country’s company’s brain, ineffective and tripping on its own chemicals, finally dies, and is quickly liquified, the body already robbed for spare parts. Whatever heart that entity (theoretically) may have had, it shut down a long time ago.

    murica