How is you experience using them ? (I know BlueSky is invite only, but perhaps someone got lucky) I registered in Mastodon recently and i’m getting the same feeling(and problems) when started using lemmy.

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Bluesky doesn’t have hashtags, but the algorithmic feeds are supposed to pick up on keywords that it deems relevant to the feed you’re subscribed to.

    The problem with that is you will often get posts which are nothing to do with the topic of the feed, but they use a word which the algorithm thinks is relevant. I was subscribed to a general Gaming feed, and I would often see posts about Donald Trump, just because someone used the word “game” or “playing” in the post.

    Another silly one was in a PlayStation feed, where I kept seeing posts from sex workers selling their content on a site called Clips4Sale. Because the URL has “ps4” written in the middle of it, it was added to the feed. 🤷

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      That sounds rife for “Manufacturing Consent” possibility. Like how the platform owners can just decide what you want to see like that. Yuck…

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’m not sure if that’s really how the US propaganda model works (that is, the one defined in Manufacturing Consent). It’s an element of it, you’re right about that, but I think ultimately the issue is that they’re a for-profit information platform. And, as a result of that and the system we’re in, they’re affected by at least four of the five filters of bias that the authors proposed:

        • They’re filtered by the investor demands to censor.
        • They’re filtered by advertising demands to censor.
        • They’re vulnerable to mass-media flak against their reputation.
        • They’re vulnerable to anti-[flavour-of-the-month] red-scare hysteria.

        Mastodon, like Lemmy, can basically ignore the first two filters, and established communities which don’t mind being smaller than mainstream are unaffected by the remaining two.

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
          01·
          1 year ago

          More referring to when websites pushes certain kinds of content against the will of its users. Youtube pushes right wing content. Twitter and Reddit on that crypto bs. Facebook pushes disinfo and terrorism. There’s no benefit for doing things that way, they just do it because they can.