• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I feel like this is mainly because things keep getting worse so you look back and think “Hey maybe that wasn’t so bad after all”

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      5 months ago

      The social media algorithms were definitely much different in 2014. They tended to promote links to outside articles and trending topics, even if those links were to BuzzFeed listicles. In 2015/16 they had all changed to trying to keep people engaged on the original site, so they started pushing rage bait that would get people arguing in the comments.

      In 2014, everybody was talking about what color that dress was. In 2015, Breitbart was like the number 3 most popular shared “news” site on Facebook.

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        5 months ago

        Hey I’m not saying that far back. We were actually on a pretty good path for a while there in like the 70’s-90’s.

        Things weren’t good but it seemed like things were actually geared toward making life better for everyone.

        Then the fire nation attacked.