we are now dealing primarily with the social and political costs of the timeline technology
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I agree but it's good to compare it to the alternative where you could "bump" and "necro" threads in a more straightforward way.
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I think the main difference is that they've convinced (or taught) people that their posts are ephemeral and disposable things that disappear (not really) into the past.
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Future schoolchildren will learn all about it In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg discovered chronology: events happen one after another and can be ordered according to their sequence in time This discovery heralded the birth of a New World
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it is a means to disrupt the linear flow of time by introducing the non-chronological (or loosely chronological) timeline
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the Doom Scroll for increased ad revenue
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