Ragebait sells. They know people will get angry and click on it which drives up their engagement numbers. Best not to engage with algorithmic feeds and instead curate your feeds to only have creators that actually respect you.
I try to do this. Which is exactly why I don’t generally get exposed to content I don’t want to see directly. And I can’t always just follow the carefully curated list because you know… I need to find people/communities to put on the carefully curated list. Even on Lemmy, I try to block users and communities that post content I don’t care for, but it’s always worming it’s way through one way or another.
Ragebait sells. They know people will get angry and click on it which drives up their engagement numbers. Best not to engage with algorithmic feeds and instead curate your feeds to only have creators that actually respect you.
I try to do this. Which is exactly why I don’t generally get exposed to content I don’t want to see directly. And I can’t always just follow the carefully curated list because you know… I need to find people/communities to put on the carefully curated list. Even on Lemmy, I try to block users and communities that post content I don’t care for, but it’s always worming it’s way through one way or another.