If misogyny were somehow magically solved tomorrow, then Xhitter would still remain a misogynistic hellhole, featuring a cesspit of whatever traits of humanity triggered clicking or views or whatever generates the highest profits (maybe in the future, trying to gain the attention of bots will vastly outweigh what happens to us here humans, in the same manner as corporations replaced individual businesses in the economic sphere?).

The specific situation described in the article is misogy, but it points to deeper roots of enshittification. The 15 year old girl will still feel put upon, even unsafe, even if it has nothing to do with her femininity anymore.

School is mandatory, Xhitter is not.

If she walked home and along the way stopped off at a particular cafe, and always got side-eyed by people there… then yeah, I would say hang out somewhere else?

Be the change that you want to see in the world, and all of that.

We here are not:-).

“Social media” generally implies an algorithm delivering monotized content, so Lemmy is not true social media.

It is media that is social, but it’s nonetheless very very very different.

Not true. It actually makes your attention span WORSE than a goldfish! 😞

It is everywhere, including irl.

However, I would guess it is more prevalent on Xhitter than here.

Better yet, make a UK-based Mastodon instance “for the children”, keeping it safe from such?

If you always get catcalled between Fourth Street and Sixth Street, and you never get catcalled on First through Third Street or Seventh and above, then yeah, maybe just know that going onto Fifth Street you might get catcalled?

You could try expressing your explicit disapproval to Elon Musk directly, maybe that will help?

Actually no, it’s not just “Fifth Street”, it’s Fifth Street in an entirely different country. Tiktok is based on China, Insta and Twitter are in the USA. Normally the rules governing a platform are a combination of the origination point and whatever interrelations exist - although obviously Donald Trump is rewriting those at will to suit him. And yet the UK could do the same… or make an alternative, if it wanted to?

Don’t use Instagram or TikTok ✅👍

Enragebait is a well known consequence of using a profit-driven Algorithm, i.e. enshittification.

15-year-olds are not being specifically targeted so much as caught up in the phenomena occuring overall.

A good nearly half of people use authoritarian thinking rather than have to put in effort to think for themselves even slightly.

Sheeple

PieFed, at the discretion of community mods, offers restriction of voting to only subscribed community members. This limits drive-by downvoting from All, where people would not have read the community rules (which in PieFed are repeated in their entirety at the bottom of every post from that community).

It also offers restriction of voting to only “trusted” instances, thereby introducing a third category between the binary federation vs. defederation.

I have also seen communities on PieFed that disable downvoting entirely, even to subscribed members, even on the same instance.

Community mods can enable or disable these settings at will iirc.

The void hungereth for your soul…

“B-b-but my side virtuous (in all ways, and can do no wrong), while their side ignoramus (everything they do is because they are poopy-heads)!”

I wish I could add /s here but a good half the population on earth seems to hold to this as an invariant position, solidarity in the face of all obstacles, i.e. the Nazi bar effect.

Case in point: who doesn’t love it when a religious institution offers food and shelter and medical care to the needy, or counsels people to forgive, laying down their burdens and seek therapy to thereby travel lighter through the world? It is the diddling kids part that for some strange reason (/s on this one) people tend to get upset?

Since we were talking about Zionism here, I will mention that Deuteronomy 13:5 (in the Torah, part of the Old Testament for Christian and Muslim and offshoot religious branches such as Mormonism) provides an EXTREMELY stern warning about those who would misuse their authority to lead people astray.

TLDR: intolerance paradox - if you tolerate the intolerant, it corrupts the entire system, giving it a bad reputation when people see the worst excesses and extrapolate that to infer the properties of the whole. e.g. Reddit is fascist, hence we did not stay and put up with it but rather moved here.

(Alt-)“Left” != Left, and in fact shares far more in common with Right (aka: fascism).

I use Mac btw (more to the point, I use whatever you do not use).

You aren’t wrong - she does look like she is on the toilet! :-P

I wondered if what I said would come across as criticism - even though I took care to avoid alluding to your comment NOT being statistically bland (which ironically, due to your third point, would have begun to imply that it WAS, despite my saying explicitly the opposite).

So we are proving real-time why LLMs go to such lengths to be bland - their goal of not offending anyone making their shareholders more money does not allow them to take those kinds of risks, as I just did above.

All the more so with their child-like yet incurious audience noping out at the first hint of difficulty understanding producing dopamine upon reading anything at all - not attempting clarification or expounding additional details as just you did.

So kudos I suppose we just proved our humanity? Now to do that 10k times a day for the rest of our natural lives…

A stack of single-sentence paragraphs, you say?

With a perfect conclusion written at the end you say?

Methinks I’ve seen this before somewhere, I say.

Dare to be different, I say.

https://youtu.be/5Peima-Uw7w does a fascinating - and extremely excellent imho - job of explaining this further. “Intelligence” is domain-specific, and does not translate to what we might rather call by a different term (wisdom?). It also dips into Emotional Agility as a source of why smart people will do these incredibly dumb things. Regardless of what others say, as in however they misuse certain terms, this video tries to convey that biases exist as traps to fall into along the way - which at its core is undeniably true on its face - and reminds us that we ignore such at our own peril.

Edit: its TLDR is: always stay curious folks! There is no better bulkwark against biases, while in contrast those who stick their head into the sand will never ever find the truth even if it walks up and introduces itself to them (which ironically, it very often does? yet misinformation is often an excellent “cure” against finding the truth of things).

Pam Bondi became AG citing how she was going to bring pedophiles to justice. Donald Trump himself said he was going to drain the swamp of Washingtonian corruption. People say a lot of things, especially in order to get elected.

Be thou not afraid.