You’re asking this question on Lemmy? Where have you been?

Oops, the system was actually set up to profit off you all along! Funny thing: it turns out that centralized, authoritarian monopolies are the most profitable things in the business world, and now in the political world too!

I can understand the convenience of these algorithms, but they always have the same subtly undermining goal: to make people addicted. The fact that TikTok’s algorithm is so good at this is worrying to me even if it doesn’t have an overt bias. It’s also why I think people are having such crazy reactions to the pending ban, even the thought of withdrawal is too much.

I think the problem is that people aren’t hooked to the short video format of TikTok, which there are already many alternatives for, but they are hooked to the algorithm that feeds them endless personalized content with simple guidance (show me more/less like this).

It’s possible to create curated and algorithm-like feeds on Bluesky, but they don’t allow for easy personalization in the same way.

I just wanted to mention the esoteric programming language INTERCAL, which was created with the idea to be unlike every other programming language as much as possible.

For example: The creators wanted to include GOTO because of how maligned it is with programmers, but since GOTO exists in many languages already they instead created the COME FROM statement which also makes the arbitrary jumps in execution even more confounding when trying to read the code.

This is the biggest load of shit. When I saw that game on the Game Awards, I went to their site and found the usual NFT crap talking about the $CATY token, air drops, financial investment risk disclosures, etc. It looks like it was scrubbed since, but likely because the game was getting so much attention after the awards.