Post #3277949
2026-05-31 08:30 UTC
Replies (3)
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@cube_drone@mastodon.social 2026-05-31 08:34
if you're wondering why the new head of BC's Conservative is further right and crazier than anything we've seen before, it could be because the dominant form of media is filled with teenagers telling everyone in #canada that they're paying 75% income tax to usher 1 million new immigrants a year into the country as part of a Liberal plot to pay them a wage of $90K a year to stay here and take jobs away from Honest Hard-working Canadians
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@TorontoWill@mastodon.social 2026-05-31 23:51
@cube_drone@mastodon.social And there you've hit on why I quit TikTok. You can curate it to content that is genuinely very good, but only if you expend significant effort teaching the algorithm what you want to see. And even then, you can't rest, you have to be constantly vigilant not to engage with the wrong thing, because just beyond the walls of your happy garden is a zombie horde stretching into the horizon. Same reason I quit Threads, and never bothered at all with a bunch of other algorithmic feeds.
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@the_moep@mastodon.de 2026-06-01 00:03
@cube_drone@mastodon.social Technically you can stop it (as the EU's Digital Services Act requires large social media platforms to have a toggle to turn off algorithmic feeds), however TikTok hides that multiple layers deep in their settings to not hurt their profits. (While in the process violating EU laws)