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Lot of similarities to how Social Media was built over the last 15 years. There was never any deep thought behind adding the Like button or Click/Upvote/Follow
by gsatic 4y ago
Lot of similarities to how Social Media was built over the last 15 years.
There was never any deep thought behind adding the Like button or Click/Upvote/Follower count to everything. The tools and protocols were simple. Even kids can use them. We can scale it. It drives engagement. It gets the funding or the advertising dollars. So lets add it to everything, was pretty much the depth reached in any architecture/design discussion.
Its looking like we are now permanently trapped with these Counts acting as some random signalling architecture injected into and underlying society. No one seems to know how to change it. And its no surprise over the last 15-20 years, Trust of the general public in Tech, has fallen below that of the Banks or the Military. Its falling further every year (this year thanks to crypto) and the way things are being built, will probably reach the level of Trust that TV News has soon.
- sublinear 4y agoSocial media isn't all there is to the "tech industry"
- kibwen 4y agoTrue. There's also advertising, which is even more hated.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoAt this point they're actually the same: the failure mode of social media, as all other forms of communication media before, is being infected and consumed by advertising.
- ethanbond 4y agoGP didn’t say it was, and in fact mentioned another branch of tech world that gets enormous real estate in the public consciousness (crypto).