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Manufactured consensus is everywhere there is enough attention to incentivize such an effort. The worst by far is Reddit.
> The worst by far is Reddit The website is truly unusable unless you directly go to small niche subreddits and even then you roll the dice with unpaid mods with a power complex.
Manufactured consensus is everywhere there is enough attention to incentivize such an effort. The worst by far is Reddit.
The most glaring example of this was how reddit did a total 180 before/after the election. Before the election questioning putting a candidate in without a primary was sacrilege. Afterwards it was a popularly supported reason for the loss. It was like watching an inflated balloon of propaganda deflate.
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It's really degenerated into a trash heap. I quit years ago.
I pop in from time to time but I only ever see right-wing rage bait (??) and my old timeline is completely gone. I don't engage with any of it either, just scrolling until I finally catch a name I recognize and maybe dropping a like.
It's sad that these social media companies supplanted proper journalism, only to then rot into this.
What do we have now?
Reading that I couldn't help but think there's parallels to HN. At least HN tries to be transparent about "the algorithm", and it's essentially a dumb algorithm compared to what X/FB/etc use.
Manufactured consensus is everywhere there is enough attention to incentivize such an effort. The worst by far is Reddit.
Important to note, I first saw this specific chart and claim of Musk's heavy handed influence via X. Also, I see plenty of dissenting opinions (in a general sense on Trump, Tariffs, Musk, DOGE, etc) on X. Alternative views definitely have reach.
Also important to note, my posts, where I am very knowledgeable in my domain and will spend an unreasonable amount of time authoring posts to make various points, will garner mere double digit views, so when someone cries about no longer have millions of views for their uneducated hot takes... spare the tears.
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Pretty sure people calling it a public utility was always an aspirational claim and not an earnest belief that it had a governance structure that made it immune to such an attack…
I think it's in reference to pre-internet 1A 'protection' even when using publicly available private property. >See Marsh v. Alabama for this -- a company town was prohibited from barring picketing and pamphleting on private sidewalks. [user?id=rabite] > https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/326us501
I'm surprised how many upvotes this got (40 points as of me writing this comment), given how little "meat" is actually in this article. The author presents a graph where views for a given user dropped precipitously after a "feud with musk". That's certainly suspicious, and was worth bringing up, but the rest of the blog is just pontificating about "social engineering" and "perception cascades", backed by absolutely n…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon...
or from webarchive
https://web.archive.org/web/20250423093911/https://www.nytim...
Manufactured consensus is everywhere there is enough attention to incentivize such an effort. The worst by far is Reddit.