this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Seems like the feeds are more active and I'm not hitting things with 3 upvotes 20 minutes into my scroll. Did Connect change something, did Lemmy or are we just seeing some population increase from Boost?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It always seemed very self-reinforcing and circular to me, like "we showed you a dog and a cat, you clicked on a dog, so now we show you 8 dogs and 2 cats, and you mainly click on dogs! All dogs from here!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's straight up dangerous. It leads people into echo chambers and they feel like they found that content with their own free will. Antivax people during covid and extreme "conservatives" are prime examples