by charcircuit
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- >We can imagine a social media that doesn't play games with the "attention economy", trying to "increase retention"
A social network where no one is there is not that valuable. Incentivizing people to "socialize" more has exponential value to a social network.
>As a result, these major companies no longer need to create better products so that you will use them instead of a competitor,
I feel like this person is regurgitating old arguments. With the recent AI boom, it should be obvious that companies are still trying to build better products. And it is fully possible for new players like OpenAI to get a billion users.
- The "Internet" doesn't suck, people do and thanks to the Internet we can see that. It's not the technology, it's how people use it.
- I feel like the amount of time spent on the internet is really mostly just mostly a function of the number of people you can interact with on the internet. Like Hacker News, which doesn’t really have any of the Big Tech problems and isn’t run for profit - yet people spend a lot of time on the site anyways.
- I’ve made this point before, because plenty of people are too narrow minded in how they view the internet.
We don’t dislike roads(real internet/pipes & routers) because asshole drivers(social media) are out there.
by dyauspitr
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- No, early internet decorum has broken down in general. Now it’s a Wild West of the worst hate and propaganda imaginable on even small forums without active moderation. It’s just what being on the internet means now. Big tech may have broken it but it’s universal now.
Think of what slashdot used to be or even the vast majority of usenet (though it had its own segregated problematic areas). Then look at what 4chan initially and then the rest of social media did to discourse.
by amadeuspagel
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- Blame yourself for what websites you choose to visit.
by FeteCommuniste
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- Social media degenerated as the companies behind it figured out how to better optimize for engagement (time spent on site, links clicked, comments posted), which is to show people all the things most likely to titillate, surprise, or piss them off.
So we get "social" feeds stuffed with thirst traps, culture war, and political slop, instead of a simple, fairly sedate chronological feed of what your friends have been doing, thinking, or photographing.
by ChrisArchitect
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- Related recently:
Dead Internet Theory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671731
Hacker News