In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content.
In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content.
A new study found that, on TikTok and Elon Musk's Twitter, nearly 3/4 of all partisan content being pushed algorithmically to German users favored the party best known for its ties to neo-Nazis.
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Even my lemmy feed on Boost is full of AfD adverts, it's enfuriating.
Wtf? How are there still people using this kinda garbage app? Lemmy and the fediverse is free, run and developed by volunteers. There are plenty of open source clients to choose from. Why in the fuck are people actively choosing to look at ads?
I don’t get it either.
How do you get ads on Lemmy?
You get ads on Boost
Why would someone use boost instead of another option?
General curiosity
Familiarity for one; it was a great Reddit client and it's a good Lemmy one too. I certainly made the shift to Lemmy a lot more frictionless.
It also has a sensible layout, decent customisation, the dev is (or was, at least) responsive to the users and it was a solution that 'just worked'.
I paid for ad free ages ago, moving from RIF and I hadn't looked back.
It hasn't been updated in a while though, so I'm playing with Thunder and it's been a pretty nice option as well. Plus, you know, FOSS and available on Droidify/F-Droid. It's far and away the best 'native' Lemmy clientnive used to date.
It's a very good app and the ads are to me (and I hate ads very much, I use ublock and revanced) not significantly intrusive.
Change apps!
Other than the ads, is there a compelling reason to?
No need to thank me.
Ooh, I'm on trackercontrol - is adaway better or pretty much the same? I get ads on tiktok but not much else 😅
I don't know about trackercontrol but I haven't seen a single ad in the last three years with Adaway.