• 3 Posts
  • 154 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: January 13th, 2022

help-circle


  • Links wie rechts locke der Algorithmus die Leute in immer radikalere, intolerantere Blasen.

    Das ist mittlerweile auch meine größte Befürchtung. Es passiert so viel auf der Welt und es wird über so viel berichtet, dass du jemanden wirklich 24/7 mit Nachrichten zu schütten kannst und trotzdem noch alles mögliche auslassen kannst, was nicht in’s politische Lager passt.

    Das sorgt dann dafür, dass sich beide Seiten gut informiert fühlen, auch immer wieder in ihrem Schubladendenken bestätigt fühlen, weil der Algorithmus oder die Bubble genau das herauskristallisiert, und wenn man dann mal mit jemand spricht, der/die in’s andere Lager geschoben wurde, dann fühlt man sich, als wäre die andere Person komplett realitätsfern oder uninformiert, weil sie eine andere Realität präsentiert bekommt…








  • Knusper@feddit.detointernet funeral@lemmy.worldFad
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

    I mean, yeah, I am also assuming that she was no expert on the matter. We’re saying that it was an understandable opinion for a lay person or even someone who kept up with the bigger titles. It certainly wasn’t easy back then to know about all kinds of games…


  • Knusper@feddit.detointernet funeral@lemmy.worldFad
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    11 months ago

    Yeah, these days it’s obvious that video games are the next logical step in media consumption. First we had audio. Then we had audio+video. Now we have audio+video+interaction. You can literally watch a movie inside of a video game, if you care to.

    But back then, the audio and video qualities of games weren’t yet terribly developed. You could still easily find board games, or heck, sports, that were more complex than Pac-Man and Space Invaders.
    I can definitely see that one would think, it’s a novelty and not be able to imagine how cineastic games would become, or that some even contain books worth of history lessons.



  • They do have a history of such things happening, yes, which is why my comment exists in the first place. Normally, I would assume this to just be the result of regular shitty management practices paired with regular shitty profit motives.

    The history makes it look like they might genuinely have a higher motive here, and I’m saying I still don’t think so, because it would be far too petty and I don’t see them benefitting that much from it.





  • The thing is, I really don’t think, Google would care about Firefox. Firefox is sitting at negligible percentages of usage share. The only real competitor to Chrome is Safari and that’s because of iOS.
    I guess, they might impact Safari on macOS with this, but someone would have to try this out to actually see, and ultimately, this could still just be a dumb mistake.

    Having said that, Google holds a near-monopoly in both video content and web browsers. They have a special duty to not disadvantage competitors and even if this was an honest mistake, I do think, it deserves a slap on the wrist.





  • Normally, I would reply to the guy, because, you know, he’s a human being, but there’s so many replies, I doubt, he can actually read all of them and potentially someone else has already made that point.

    Anyways, I feel like something he kind of misses here is that many of us do it from a heartfelt place. Like, we’re all techies. We’ve all used commercial software to a point where we’ve grown so frustrated with it that we decided it is a waste of time.

    So, it’s not us saying “Why don’t you go and just have more time/money?”.
    Rather, it’s us saying “This thing is wasting your time? Here is a solution that I felt wasted less time in the long run.”.

    Yes, sometimes that does miss the mark, because not every complaint is looking for a solution. Or because we may be frustrated with restrictions of commercial software, which are not a problem for less techy people. Or even because we’re embedded in this tech world and are hoping to make it a better place, which someone just quickly visiting may not care about.

    But other times, I do just happen to know a lot about technology and a non-techy genuinely did not know about the solution I suggested and is actually really appreciative of me bringing it up. It does happen. And it’s not easy to discern who would appreciate a suggestion and who won’t.