[1/*] Thanks to Twitter's continuing "we really want the future to look just like the past" social conformity changes, I realized something depressing about computing that I had not considered before. I thought I might share it with you so you can be depressed, too.https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1427706890113495046 …
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[10/*] So you don't have to wonder what the future of communication looks like! It looks just like the past. If books were banned, movies will be banned; if movies were banned, YouTubes will be banned.
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[11/*] So computers didn't really offer anything different. The only thing they were was _new_. And something new has a brief period when the majority of people aren't using it, so their desire to force people to conform isn't applied.
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[12/*] I'm not sure if that makes me more or less depressed. It's a depressing thought, but maybe also one that is slightly motivating: it means we can always make a new - albeit shortly lived - place free from the demands of social conformity.
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[13/*] We just make a new medium for communication, and for a brief time, before it becomes popular, people will be able to be themselves there. The depressing part is, of course, that it will only last for a short while.
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That conclusion seems overly negative to me. There could be alternate explanations for why traditional media is the way it is; we could also be stuck in a local equilibrium and the right tech might trigger a preference cascade.
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If that were the case, one would assume that some previous media would have done it. Of course there is a first time for everything, so I would love for it _not_ to be true of some future technology. Social media, as we have seen, definitely isn't it, though :)
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