The whole thing is kinda silly, but still... interesting implications wrt how much of shared reality we generally consider socially constructible, who "gets to" do the constructing, & whether they can (& should!) perform socially pragmatic *reconstructions* decades after the fact https://twitter.com/martian_munk/status/1042145446406365184 …
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Centralized social media platforms create an illusory "global, unified medium" for ideas & comms. This fiction is increasingly harmful and creates a false scarcity, ironically in one of the few areas where humanity has actually defeated physical scarcity (storage, ram, bandwidth)
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We could have a million little Facebooks, and none of us would have to fight about it. (How we reconcile those virtual filter bubbles with real life, is a different matter. But solvable.) But b/c of the forced coherence into a single global noosphere, we have memetic wars.


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