yeah I left reddit completely and moved to lemmy. but search results still show reddit threads sometimes. so that particular thing is malicious to everyone and has very little to do with reddit.

its just shitty. a much better way to do it would be to edit the comment with an addendum to say how crap reddit is and there are alternatives with a link.

don’t punish normal people who are desperate to find a solution to something.

klingins

mazel tov. but I was asking the other commenter.

how did you find Lemmy? did you find out through reddit?

ive been here over a year now and I sure did. haven’t used reddit since.

if you didn’t come here from reddit, I’d be curious to hear where you did come from before making a Lemmy account.

agreed. there is a way to keep that algorithm private. on a person to person case.

that information would just have to not be sold. thats the difference.

an algorithm wouldn’t be inherently evil. the data collected is what’s potentially dangerous. but if its kept to just your personal account, it could be quite safe

and make the app less of a chore to use.

i mean… a lot of the content on the fediverse is literally just lifted straight from the other “junk food” social media websites that were just named.

its just a federated experience. not a “healthy” one. I’m all for moving more people over to the fediverse but let’s maybe take it down a couple notches with the weird propaganda-esque ads?

it quite annoys me as well. “No annoying algorithms!”

…great. so it will never learn what content I actually like to see and will feed me random crap I don’t want to see.

i get like the same 5 videos of someone walking around outside and a couple of ads for stuff I’m not even remotely interested in.