After the evening of Fête de la Musique, nearly 145 suspected cases of 'random syringe attacks' were reported. Yet, to date, not a single case of drug injection has been confirmed.
These allegations caused outrage in this community. Let this be a lesson in critical thinking.
But the way news is distributed also follows algorithms, so while Lemmy does not have an internal recommender algorithm like TikTok etc., what ends up on Lemmy is still partly driven by external algorithms
Lemmy has various options to sort, eg by active. That surfaces posts that create engagement. It’s stuff that polarizes.
I find interesting stuff either by sorting by new in my subscribed communities. Or by looking for something that causes a stir. The last one creates exactly those problems that are often ascribed to “The Algorithm”.
But the way news is distributed also follows algorithms, so while Lemmy does not have an internal recommender algorithm like TikTok etc., what ends up on Lemmy is still partly driven by external algorithms
Lemmy has various options to sort, eg by active. That surfaces posts that create engagement. It’s stuff that polarizes.
I find interesting stuff either by sorting by new in my subscribed communities. Or by looking for something that causes a stir. The last one creates exactly those problems that are often ascribed to “The Algorithm”.