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It will to see how the platforms fare once they have to exercise editorial control over their content. It will be especially interesting to see how their assum
by jimnotgym 8y ago
It will to see how the platforms fare once they have to exercise editorial control over their content.
It will be especially interesting to see how their assumed competitive advantage over 'traditional media' holds once it is subject to a massive increase in overhead, which surely follows from having an army of moderators.
I wonder if they will start to ebb, consolidate, and find a place alongside other media. Those that are scarcely profitable right now (Twitter for instance) should be the early indicators.
- village-idiot 8y agoHonestly, I’m surprised that social media is a thing. It appears to make its users miserable, especially twitter and Instagram, and some of them barely break even.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYou could say the same about heroin. Or even alcohol, really. Taking immediate pleasure at the price of pain later is a failure mode of human brain; we all fall for it, to smaller or greater extent.
- village-idiot 8y agoGood point.