ChiwaWithMujicanoHat

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•LOL? lol
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    9 months ago

    It’s somewhat better but heavily depends on what you play and how you play it. Empirically, it’s better as now I only find toxic players every 20 games or so, when before it was like 1/2. But I also recommend to just mute everything and everyone and stick to ARAM if you don’t like toxicity.

  • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?
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    9 months ago

    Most of the time it’s the echo chamber needs that we all have, we want to see opinions that match our own at the top, and opinions that don’t match, at the bottom.

    The issue is that social media is very aggressive on the trends. It’s easier for people to formulate a judgement (when the opinion is somewhat ambiguous, or not very strong) when someone else has done the actual judgement for you and upvoted/downvoted.

    If votes where not shown at all, the comments would have wildly distinct amounts of support. It’s a pretty fun subject to study to be fair since it affects all of us very strongly so they are not just fake internet points in that sense. People’s days are sometimes dictated by the amount of validation or hate they get from strangers, we’ve been seeing this since Facebook and it will continue getting more relevant as we move more of our daily lives and activities to the digital world.

  • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.orgtoChat@beehaw.org•Why are people so adversarial on social media? Why do I keep seeing people setting traps, or baiting people?English
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    10 months ago

    We are social creatures and there’s also loneliness epidemics popping everywhere, people are interacting less with people and interacting more with their opinion on the ideas of others.

    While opinions are important to develop your own character and critical thinking skills, there’s an inherent competitive nature on social platforms, where having a winning argument has become the main goal, and opinions that others identify with, lead to further divisions, instead of making like-minded people gather.

    Things do look grim for the future now that you’ll have AI running your echo chambers, distancing you from objective reality and just further isolating you into a self indulging solipsism.

    So you ask, why are we like this? The truth is that it’s more economical and rewarding to find self validation by dismissing others. It requires less effort as you only establish a connection to hurt and mock. You don’t have to go through the effort of learning, teaching, helping and being helped.

    Coming back to your example, we usually have a set of values, whether found through life or imposed by others, that we identify with, if we see something going against them we get frustrated and we want to do something about it, since most of us realistically cannot do shit about things then we go on and rant, but when others do the exact same, we fight them, it’s cheap, it’s easy it’s perfect to fulfil our need for action.

    What can we do to fight this?

    To be honest, I’m not sure.

    I just try to help others around me by listening to them and being interested in what they want to say.

  • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.orgtoWorld News@beehaw.org•'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
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    11 months ago

    There are multiple people falling prey to Nigerian/Philippines romance scams, thinking a celebrity/influencer/hot person is using an alt account to contact them because they fell in love with them at first sight.

    They give thousands of dollars, millions even. They take out loans, sell their houses, lose all their inheritance, all because they think they are special, when in truth they are just lonely enough to believe the lies that make them think their life has any meaning at all.

    The way these scams operate and how Trump manipulates people is virtually the same. It’s impressive what loneliness and egocentrism do to us and how vulnerable we can be to the most obvious lies.

  • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    11 months ago

    I’ve had a good experience with YouTube comments but I feel they are pretty pointless as:

    • there is no search function:Ctrl f only takes you so far as it just looks at what is currently present and sometimes even hidden by display more or within replies, it’s very annoying.

    • people spam a lot and comments only load in batches: 10k comments in popular videos saying shit like ‘sir thank you sir, excellent tutorial, I didn’t understand anything but I like using React’.

    • some comments get auto removed: if you want to post a workaround or some piece of code, it gets removed if there’s a link or link-looking structure.

    I mostly comment on tech-related tutorials just to post a list of the issues I had and the solutions, from time to time I get pinged with more questions and people are generally grateful and sometimes other people mention better/easier workarounds.

  • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.orgtoChat@beehaw.org•The mind rotting, infuriating miasma of social platformsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve had pretty much the same experience and social media is clearly engineered to be controversial for you to see the worst takes and then you feel the need to engage.

    But this is not just a design in social media, it’s an actual part of our society. We all have had different experiences and this shapes our perception of things and wherever there is a group, there will be the need to establish status and differences between the constituents. Social Media is just the current platform we have to eventually show the worst of us.