It seems like an awareness campaign is a good start. People on this platform are generally very social media savvy, but the harms of social media are far from common knowledge.
One of the most important things that Lemmy has done is to introduce a transparent ranking algorithm. It turns out that people do like algorithms in our social media, as long as we can see and control them. There’s nothing sinister about an algorithm when you can easily see what is getting boosted and why (and switch it off at will)
Other federated media are developing personalized algorithms that will be well suited to other platforms.
I’m glad that the government is trying to address the issue of social media, but obviously adding warnings isn’t going to do anything.
I think the only way to actually solve the problem would be to regulate the recommendation algorithms to make them less addictive and less harmful.
It seems like an awareness campaign is a good start. People on this platform are generally very social media savvy, but the harms of social media are far from common knowledge.
One of the most important things that Lemmy has done is to introduce a transparent ranking algorithm. It turns out that people do like algorithms in our social media, as long as we can see and control them. There’s nothing sinister about an algorithm when you can easily see what is getting boosted and why (and switch it off at will)
Other federated media are developing personalized algorithms that will be well suited to other platforms.