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I don't know. Trying not to be the problem.
I swear to resist information pollution.

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2024-06-18 17:56:02

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I'm not going to talk to a brick wall much longer. By much longer I mean this is my last post to you guys.
To me, when I say, social media, there is an implied social media as a business rather than an infrastructure. Language is fuzzy like that. It's pretty much impossible for me to write something short of a book that will be correctly decoded by random people on the Internet.
I have significantly more control over what I see, and it's not delivered like a smart slot machine. That's a core difference.
Reddit was different, which is why appending Reddit to your Google search provided better results, and still often does. Unfortunately Reddit is also owned by someone and will eventually find it's way down that same path.
Things are gradients. If big social media was obviously bad we would all dog pile on it and kill it. It only survives because it can trick people into thinking it might be okay. The flip side is true too. If something was obviously better we would all switch to it which would also kill traditional social media. That's the thing about information. You don't, and almost can't know when you don't have it. You can be talking to someone who knows their shit and you have no way of knowing. It's not like muscles, you can't just look at someone and see it.
You need to have it, to see it.

2024-06-18 17:56:02

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2024-06-18 17:33:47

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It's bad. If you would like me to teach you why that will be $40 an hour.

2024-06-17 18:31:16

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Social media is definitely bad.
Each player is being fed different information and they can't see what information others are being fed unless they get on their account and 'experience' their feed.
You pretty much have to have to write a college thesis on it to prove it's bad, and that makes it extra bad. Because there is a plausible deniability these guys can hide behind.
I hate that I even need to discuss this. It's pretty obviously bad.