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> They don't want to make you happy or feel good, they want money, at all costs which results in you being angry and toxic. I agree that the incentives between
by flowingfocus 4y ago
> They don't want to make you happy or feel good, they want money, at all costs which results in you being angry and toxic.
I agree that the incentives between users and social media don't align. However, there still would be none if there was an incentive for social media to "make users happy" or "make users feel good". As long as a single entity is in in a position to control the experience of all users (for example by deciding which timeline/suggestion algorithms are used) users have to keep track of how the incentive structure of that entity evolve. That means as a user, I want to own my interface to networks (so I get to choose e.g. suggestion algorithms). That's one of the cool things of the fediverse or email. By design, no single entity can make the user experience for all users strictly worse because there is no way to force adoption of something that goes against users incentives.