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Social media has become a freak show

28 points by herbertl

by deIeted

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Has he realized that he's neither a statistician, economist, or political pundit, and now he's stating the extremely unobvious, hard-to-discern, and mystifying realization that social media and the internet are weird?
I say thank God for Nate Silver for educating the masses that the internet has weirdness on it.
Without Nate, what would we do? Who would be there to tell us that the internet has weirdness? 15 years after articles talking about algorithms and echochambers?
Without Nate, how can we point to some completely incorrect numbers and some completely obvious observations, whether it's obviously true or obviously false? We just need the obvious from Nate. Wow, imagine waking up every day and just desperately scrabbling to find some semblance of usefulness and utility in your existence.

by spacebacon

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I was one of these publishers caught in the war with facebook. I lost 10 million fans and any respect I had left for FB.
By the time a FB doom scroller makes it to you outside of Facebook they are cooked. 0 attention, 0 retention, diminishing returns (if you paid for it).

by api

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Part of the issue is that a huge number of people have quiet quit social media. They’ve just left, or at least they rarely visit.
What’s left is brain rot and its addicts.

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