1/ I know everyone is tired of this but @facebook & @twitter are irreparably flawed. Both throw around the word "community" a lot.
They're not communities.
And, while communities use such services and some may emerge through that mediation, they're at best apparitions.
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4/ It's wildly excessive because the medium *does* connect everyone -- but only with respect to attention. Within a community, norms guide agendas. On social media, different communities compete over contextless attention as a resource, trying to enforce their latent agendas.
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5/ Consequently, the feed and trending algorithms stoke a constant sense of insecurity. The competition for attention reduces everything to defining a multiplicity of community boundaries simultaneously, at the expense of intra-community social interactions.
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6/ The mixture of inter-group to intra-group interactions is awful. At the limit, the medium approaches a combat arena that endlessly fragments communities, pulverizes connections, and crystalizes stereotypic animosity.
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7/ Advertiser-friendly homogeneity and the commodification of attention creates really high market capitalizations because the catastrophic and self-perpetuating social damage is fully externalized.
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See also:
@Aelkus's take on dysfunctional fandoms and politics, which I think is related. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1026843256271851524 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
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