#fuckthealgorithm — Public Fediverse posts

"Confused, dependent users are more profitable than competent, autonomous ones. Lock-in is more valuable than interoperability. Opacity is more valuable than transparency. The architecture of modern consumer technology has been optimized against user competence with extraordinary success"
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"It’s about being able to make informed choices instead of having choices made for you by systems optimized for someone else’s revenue"

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The platforms are making your information diet worse on purpose, because worse converts to engagement, and engagement converts to revenue" [2/2]

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"The algorithm situation is the one that most directly affects daily life and receives the least serious scrutiny. […] These systems are explicitly not neutral — they’re optimized for engagement, which empirically correlates with outrage, anxiety, conflict, and tribal reinforcement, because those emotional states produce the behavioral signals the engagement metrics reward" [1/2]

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"Whoever holds your behavioral data holds power over you. That’s true whether or not you’ve done anything wrong" [2/2]

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"The problem is not, primarily, that services collect data. The problem is that users have been convinced to treat pervasive surveillance infrastructure as benign or beneficial, and to respond to any criticism of it as paranoia, technical elitism, or failure to appreciate convenience. The learned helplessness is the crisis. The data collection is the symptom" [1/2]

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Going to take the liberty of adding a few noteworthy quotes below to remind me as to why I am here (#Mastodon) nowadays 😅👇🏻

"This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos"

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"The obituary for the power user is being written right now. The people writing it are the same ones who sold you the phone, designed the app store, wrote the terms of service you didn’t read, and built the algorithm that decided you didn’t need to see this" 🤯😤

"The Slow Death of the Power User" 👉🏻 https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

A superb essay, poignant as hell. I can relate, I used to be one of those folks up to about a decade ago 😱😢

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RE: https://saturation.social/@clive/116541418068834134

I guess the payslip is *really good*, because otherwise I can't understand why people would keep working for such a firm under such atrocious, demeaning and disgusting circumstances thinking it's ok.

Where are the dignity and the integrity of respecting one's privacy as an employee by an employer?👇🏻🤮

#SovereignByDesign #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #FuckTheAlgorithm #GenAI

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116532762431065583

You know what? The irony is not lost on me that we know *exactly* what's wrong with all of those #MediaTools that we coin new terms / concepts to describe them while we still make heavy use of them ... because of ... "engagement" 🤢

Walk the talk, people! If you'd want to persuade / influence others about your own ideas, I'd appreciate leading by example. Stop justifying your own use of such toxic tools! 😤

Pretty please? 🙏🏻😊

#SocialMedia #SovereignByDesign #FuckTheAlgorithm #ParasocialMedia