there are tweaks that can be made. also I’m talking about an individual’s personal feed
if I open tiktok right now, my feed will differ from yours. because it’s personalized. reddit is a bad example because its not personalized.
if you’re seeing far right videos on your feed its because you’re engaging with that content. you’re feeding the algorithm.
don’t engage with that garbage and you won’t see it.
manipulated by whom? if it can be manipulated so that you get to see the content you like, I say thats fine.
if you mean manipulated by 3rd parties to sell ads, then that’s bad.
this isn’t a black and white thing. it can exist without being data to sell for ads. what matters is if the one hosting the videos is willing to sell that data.
if its kept to just your own personal usage data to make your experience a better one, that’s not a terrible thing.
tags are one way for sure. but then its difficult to find new stuff that might fit your interests that you don’t have tags for.
what does control over what they want to watch look like without an algorithm?
an algorithm doesn’t have to be a negative thing.
agreed. there is a way to keep that algorithm private. on a person to person case.
that information would just have to not be sold. thats the difference.
an algorithm wouldn’t be inherently evil. the data collected is what’s potentially dangerous. but if its kept to just your personal account, it could be quite safe
and make the app less of a chore to use.
i mean… a lot of the content on the fediverse is literally just lifted straight from the other “junk food” social media websites that were just named.
its just a federated experience. not a “healthy” one. I’m all for moving more people over to the fediverse but let’s maybe take it down a couple notches with the weird propaganda-esque ads?
it quite annoys me as well. “No annoying algorithms!”
…great. so it will never learn what content I actually like to see and will feed me random crap I don’t want to see.
i get like the same 5 videos of someone walking around outside and a couple of ads for stuff I’m not even remotely interested in.
healthy? what do you mean by healthy. healthy for whom? the life of the app itself? because it won’t survive without dedicated users.
if there is no algorithm to keep track of what users want to see vs don’t want to see, they’ll stop using the app in favor of apps that cater to their interests.
watching a random video of something I’m not interested in isn’t particularly all that fun.
if an app learns I like anime and video games or specific types of content, then I’m more likely to use the app.
the issue with loops is there’s no algorithm. so I get 10 random videos that don’t interest me and just one that does, almost.
that’s not going to work long term for engagement. i already get bored on loops after like a minute.
Golly I loved these things when I was a kid. I still do.
the same level of toxicity that I left reddit for seems to be permeating Lemmy, now.
America is a lot of people from different places settling in one continent. lots of people care about what their family history is. I’m not sure what’s weird about that.
there’s a lot of people with bloodlines from different parts of the world in every country. it means something to some people. not everyone, but quite a few.
that particular phenomenon is everywhere.
One guy writes an article. literally just one dude.
the comments: “AMERICANS ARE WEIRD AF. ALL AMERICANS DO THIS AND FEEL THIS WAY.”
I’m interested!
eww. paywall. gross. here:
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a huge success since it was launched last year
John Mulligan
The holding company for Belgian-controlled games studio Larian, which runs its revenue through its Dublin arm, posted a €249m pre-tax profit last year as the major success of its Baldur’s Gate 3 title supercharged its sales.
The company, which was founded by chief executive Swen Vincke in 1996, operates studios in cities including Dublin, Ghent, Warsaw and Quebec.
Mr Vincke owns virtually all of the ordinary shares in the holding company, but a unit of Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent – which owns major stakes in Fortnite owner Epic Games and other gaming ventures – also has a large chunk of preference shares in the firm.
The Tencent division, Tencent Cloud Europe, has been an investor in Larian for a number of years.
Accounts just filed for Larian Group Holdings in Ireland show that its revenue soared to €427m last year, from €22.7m in 2022.
The bumper profit it recorded last year compared with a €214,000 loss the holding company made the year before.
Its turnover and profits fluctuate over the lifetime of its games titles and their development.
Badur’s Gate 3, based on Dungeons and Dragons, has been the most successful of the company’s titles to date, selling around 15 million copies. It gave the holding company the financial muscle to pay a €28m dividend this year.
Launched last year, the title wasn’t initially expected to achieve the level of sales that it did.
The game had been in development for years and came to the market in August last year. It won numerous industry awards.
“We’re in the luxurious position now that we can pick our own destiny and our own path, which is really cool,” Mr Vincke told video game website IGN in September.
“So I hope we can sustain that,” he said, adding that he has two main goals for the studio. “Being able to make things we like to make and making sure that it’s sustainable so we can continue doing so.”
Swen Vincke (centre with arm raised) and the Larian Studio team with the Best Game Award for Baldur’s Gate 3 at the BAFTA Games Awards 2024 in London last April. Photo: Getty
The intellectual property for Baldur’s Gate is owned by a company called Wizards of the Coast, which itself is owned by games company Hasbro.
Releasing full-year results for 2023 earlier this year, Hasbro said revenue at Wizards of the Coast rose 10pc in the year, driven by increased licensed digital gaming revenue from Baldur’s Gate 3 and another title by a different studio.
Baldur’s Gate 3 contributed $90m in revenue to the Hasbro unit for the year.
But Mr Vincke said last March that Larian would be ending its partnership with Wizards of the Coast, meaning that no new Baldur’s Gate game is in development, although the studio is working on other projects.
The success of Baldur’s Gate 3 has continued, however, meaning that Larian’s financial performance this year is also likely to be strong.
Larian’s publishing director, Michael Douse, said this week that the performance of the game this year has exceeded that of 2023. It has 20pc more active daily users this year than last, he said in a post on X.
“I am also happy to announce we have achieved one more sale in the Holy See, the Vatican, itself,” he added.
if there is, I haven’t seen any. ive been using it quite a bit. its probably like most social media where if you don’t engage with that kind of content, it doesn’t show it to you.
followed. hell yeah.
there’s too much stuff to keep track of, man. all I know is that when I see that term, it sets off a red flag in my brain.
i have only heard the term “wrongthink” used by those who participate in pretty not cool places.
edit: did I get downvoted for wrongthink? lol
i think we are talking about two entirely different things. you’re talking about generalized stuff and I’m talking about a specific person’s feed.
I’m not talking politics or other stuff. literally just talking a personalized feed. just for entertainment.
golly. not every single thing has to lead to the end of the world, man.
chill with the “propaganda and disinformation”. I’m talking cats and anime and video games.