I want to train it to give me communist content, news, culture discussion from the leftist perspective, ect…basically this site. Never used it before so I’m asking before I do anything on it so I don’t mess it up with the initial searches or anything.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    TikTok especially is the closest thing I have ever observed or experienced to digital content crack

    I realized after using it for the first time that infinite scrolling is the creation of fucking Yakub. With Reddit or this site, the algorithm will put a certain number of posts on the front page every day and they will be relatively stable - at least for me, if I get to the bottom of the first page it feels like a good time to go do something else, and if I check in again later in the day 90% of the posts will be the same, limiting how long I spend here. Tiktok's algorithm on the other hand has so much content (a result of most of it being pretty low-effort) that it never has to show you the same post twice, and the infinite scroll never gives you a natural break in the action where you can tap out.

    Anyway, China has the right idea with limiting kids to 3 hours of gaming during the week, but they don't go far enough. Limiting everyone's social media access should be seen as a common sense public mental health measure.