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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (making toys)") wrote:
Making choices is hard. Sometimes it's exhausting.
Sometimes it's easier to not make a choice.I do it all the time.
But not choosing is also a choice.
By allowing an algorithm to decide what I'm going to watch, or even just to provide the options from which I made my choice, I am ceding my agency to the machine. I am choosing to trust the people who programmed that algorithm, and the choices that they made.
And, increasingly, if this isn't pointing you towards political extremism, it's pulling you back to the mean, taking you from whatever potentially unique and interesting and maybe independent media you might be consuming back to whatever had the most marketing dollars pumped into it.