Right. I guess all I’m saying is that it seems pretty clear that the internet was a bad idea, because the way we want human interaction to work is not actually very similar to the way it does work at scale.
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100%. But these corporations have commodified human attention, generating it through leaky and destructive externalities that they ignore. Honestly the world would be better without the ad model, even if less content gets to poor people. Honestly: this content sucks anyway.
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I believe the middle part while simultaneously believing the exact opposite.
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Right. Which (semi-relatedly) explains why Mastodon will fail. It's sorted on something close to class boundaries, such that it's pretty homogeneous. And participating in multiple instances is taxing. And fundamentally, it's a less-slick twitter with a different license.
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Like, really, that's why I don't think I *should* build in that space. For the foreseeable future, the winner's have a strong position. If I want to build better ways to allocate social attention, successful projects aren't gonna look like social media,https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1103709478661378048 …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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