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People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)
submitted 4 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Twitter is not a utility. We really need to stop treating techbro services like utilities. If we feel they actually are utilities, the government can step in and make that claim and the appropriate changes.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

The EU has declared Twitter and a few others to be gate-keepers and they will now be held to a higher standard. But I don't think the EU is going to use this power to save US democracy.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

I disagree. We should nationalize it.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You would be shocked to know how many people use TikTok as a search engine

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm not on tiktok, but I'll admit to using YouTube as a search engine a lot. Also googling something and immediately hitting the video tab before reading any of the results.

[–] stellargmite@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I liken using groogle for finding factual information to using the yellowpages for doing the same. YT isn't much better but it suffers many of the conflicts of interest traditional media outlets also had, depending on the corporation. In this case the almighty algorithm is the conflict of interest, though there are clever content creators out there making some good stuff, they’ll always be beholden to the owners of the platform and the true customers - the advertisers. As an advertising platform which can direct punters to actual long form content directly supported by watchers via patreon or similar, I understand why it is used : the sheer numbers using it.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You video guys work different.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I only find videos useful if I’m trying to figure out something that’s procedural. Seeing the procedures and steps done in front of me helps me grasp the concept much faster than text.

For just information though, text is golden and video is a waste of time.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i hate it, but i just cant find decent written resulta anymore outside of reddit and such

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on field. Some ~~meth~~ math and programming stuff exists only in PDF. Try find videos on Bounding Interval Hierarchy. At least there are decent videos on BSP trees

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PDFs break my brain. It's 2024. Unless you truly intend for something to be primarily and only read in print why use PDF? And I know everybody is able to host HTML because usually everyone is grabbing these PDFs from a webpage.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unless you want to force readers into reading in browser, you should use PDF.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

If it's not something I expect people to read in a print format I'm absolutely willing to do that.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I must be a dinosaur because for most things I am looking up I want concise textual information. I'll look for videos to explain larger complicated concepts

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

Sure, video has it's place. I was just wondering that some people get their info primarily from video. Guess it's something with abstraction vs. imagination.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

If it's something like taking apart hardware, videos are great because there are a lot of little details that it's hard to capture in even a picture.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just ask chatGPT…

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Why? All it's going to do is output some words that have a statistical correlation to your input words

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

That's how I use Bing. 😻

[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If it's a private company that con do what it wants, like blocking political opponents, it should not be under safe harbor protections.

That's the point in yelling about this. If Elon wants a private forum for him and his mates, he should also be fully responsible when his mates posts child porn on his servers.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Holy Unholy, this is written by The Enshittification Guy!

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Show a little repsect, "The Enshittification Guy" is Cory Doctorow a very well known author and activist.