We are certainly affected by the social norms and memes which are generated by the larger site’s algorithms even on Lemmy.
Even here you see arguments that are Reddit styled, you see self censorship from TikTok (unalived, f*ck, etc) and you see the purest outrage-bait from X. A huge portion of the content that we see on Lemmy is content that was surfaced by the primary social media site’s algorithms.
We do get to dodge the hyper targeted nature of the content so, assuming you’re Lemmy-only (if not, delete those apps for your own sanity) you won’t be given content that is hypertuned to your specific psychological traits so a lot of things will fail to make as big of an impact on you which can give you enough mental space to maintain perspective.
We are certainly affected by the social norms and memes which are generated by the larger site’s algorithms even on Lemmy.
Even here you see arguments that are Reddit styled, you see self censorship from TikTok (unalived, f*ck, etc) and you see the purest outrage-bait from X. A huge portion of the content that we see on Lemmy is content that was surfaced by the primary social media site’s algorithms.
We do get to dodge the hyper targeted nature of the content so, assuming you’re Lemmy-only (if not, delete those apps for your own sanity) you won’t be given content that is hypertuned to your specific psychological traits so a lot of things will fail to make as big of an impact on you which can give you enough mental space to maintain perspective.