As Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation gets more and more aggressive in force-feeding us the official narrative of the day, we have to get a bit clever in making sure we see the information our r…

Some of you may be interested.

Twitter Lists [are very useful for this], because for all its flaws Twitter is still where the journalists hang out and remains a great place for staying on top of the news if you can figure out how to cut through all the bullshit.

  • arbilp3@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I agree about not using X, but for writers/journos/commentators etc who want to get their message through to as many people as possible, it’s only logical that they go to the most popular media no matter how nasty it is. If they only wrote in social media like Lemmy they’d be speaking mostly to the converted and to a much, much smaller cohort.

    So, we need to grow Lemmy, right?

    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

      So, we need to grow Lemmy, right?

      Probably Mastodon in this case, since it’s more of a Twitter alternative, but it’s all fediverse!

      • arbilp3@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        It’s all very new to me. I started seriously using social media only about 4 yrs ago. That was Fb and I was kicked off that probably because of my political ideas though they fabricated some other excuse. Then I came to HERE! I’m still a beginner.