Social Media Algorithms

bIuemickey · 2026-03-02T21:19:23+00:00

Yea it has a very interesting effect… you see things you’re more likely to watch, click on, or engage with, so feminist and anti-male content leads to more feminist and anti-male content, leading to more feminist and antimale content being made, but also this stuff is so personalized that it will show anti-feminist content to the same people as well if they engage with it, which they tend to do, but only at the rate they’ll engage.. which is usually only to argue their point from a well established bias, with no actual human interaction meaning they project context of the “enemy” onto the person they’ve already decided they disagree with, so a small amount of conflict is like a Goldilocks amount to reinforce their views even more, and it’s social media so there’s no commitment to arguments and people tend to just back out when they’re not winning or they get bored of seeing controversial content that conflicts with their views above the threshold of being validating.

Someone who’s watching a bunch of feminist content, but doesn’t watch any content that goes against it, has a personalized echo chamber of reinforced bias. There’s a false consensus. Someone who views the same content but argues with MRAs to “educate” them just intends to prove they’re right. Any agreement proves them right, any disagreement proves them right, and they go back to their feminist home base where they’re reassured by their personalized false consensus that they are correct.

jjj2576 · 2026-03-02T12:40:11+00:00

I mean, you are the media you consume. If you don’t select that media with intention, someone else will.

If I ever catch myself doom scrolling, I look for something to do with my hands and listen to some tunes— better than consuming someone putting folks down.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2026-03-02T15:40:52+00:00

It gets clicks. Or taps, or whatever the smartphone equivalent is.

Sad_Channel_9154 · 2026-03-03T00:01:38+00:00

You really ought to delete Tiktok

Sad_Channel_9154 · 2026-03-03T00:01:58+00:00

You really ought to delete Tiktok

Title	Social Media Algorithms
Author	curbyourcynicism
Upvotes	23
Comments	6
Date	March 2, 2026 12:21 PM UTC (5 months ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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