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It's not just Facebook. All current hyper-centralized platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) slowly screw up the Web in many subtle ways. The biggest one i
by gambler 10y ago
It's not just Facebook. All current hyper-centralized platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) slowly screw up the Web in many subtle ways. The biggest one is that they are designed around consumption and production of content at the detriment of everything else. (Everything else being analysis, discussions, asking questions, learning and even making new social contacts.)
- stcredzero 10y agoThe current web has a toleration and free speech problem. When only a minority of researchers, professionals, and students were online, there was enough of an online culture of intellectualism and respect (though it still got pretty wooly even in the 80's) that things still kinda worked. Generations of internet f#cwads, forums with deletions, and heavy-handed moderation has taught the general populace that the other side is stupid, ugly, and deplorable, and that only moderation mechanisms and the shouting of the crowd prevail. Things have gone from the internet as a repository of knowledge, to an unstoppable font of clickbait and fake news. It's true. We can't have nice things. We, being human beings without social pressures to keep us in check.