Back in the day, introducing video posts destroyed facebook, a friends chatter platform, slowly but surely. Same fate with instagram, a photography/memory platform, getting into reels and videos.

Now if I go to reddit once a month to check in what the vibe is since my “detox” I realized.

Its all designed to drain. Drain your energy, your free thought, your long term happiness. Like not even hyperbolic, this is really scary.

And we all know thanks to the c/reddit community here on lemmy: Its full of this hidden but omniprersent corpo shilling, ads and corpo censoring.

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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    8 days ago

    yea my complaint isn’t mainly about the aspect ratio, moreso the prevalence, and the sources these videos are pulled from (TikTok mostly)