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Pfff. The title has "Community takes all", while the article is about "Company takes all". This article proves to me how little these so-called 'social network
by rapnie 6y ago
Pfff. The title has "Community takes all", while the article is about "Company takes all".
This article proves to me how little these so-called 'social networks' have to do with anything social.
'Social', a newspeak term to denote some kind of dehumanized business commodity. And by adding a good sprinkle of social fairy dust the magical pathway opens that allows squeezing most money from the 'community' you lured in.
I give this a social minus.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y ago"We farm and manipulate people's interests for cash" might be a better title. I honestly wonder if a16z and the rest of the SV elite don't understand that this is a symptom of moral and emotional dysfunction, and not proof of their competitive superiority. I've considered a couple of music-related social projects, but I'd be more interested in making a fan site for - you know - fans and artists, and not so much of a monetisation juggernaut that will deliberately trap its users in endless twisty little passages of sticky interaction so their time can be harvested and passed to ad tech.
- rzodkiew 6y agoIt's pretty much rebranded serfdom.