It’s not as cut and dry obviously, but Meta certainly does take away control from the user in comparison to Fediverse based platforms regarding algorithms. and despite how complex it is, the algorithm will still sort your feed for you based off that data.

I think that algorithms that the user can control is good. But when the algorithm is used against users like with Meta it’s bad. It’s about how it’s used not just simply because an algorithm exists.

I don’t think the problem is strictly the existence algorithms, but rather how they are used against the users.

To some extent, on Lemmy users are free to sort posts how they wish. Such as by new, or hot… etc. Should these types of algorithm-like features be banned too?

While pretty much Youtube and Facebook just decide for you what gets pitched to you.

last year I went cold turkey on video games for about a whole year. This year I started playing video games again, but started making better choices on video games not designed to addict me into playing repeatedly for days, weeks and months online.