• thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I absolutely blame social media for a lot of today’s brainrot. Everyone has a soapbox to spread hate/lies for monetary gain. People that should stfu (myself included, I don’t have profiles that can do anything, just comment sometimes) and live life.

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      It’s not the people spewing bullshit that are the problem. Those have always existed. It’s the algorithms that promote and amplify the bullshit. This is ostensibly in the name of “engagement” but I’ve ceased to believe that’s the main motive long ago. The owners of the major platforms very clearly use them to promote their far right agenda. Not all of them are as blatant as Musk but it’s there on all of them.