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Nobody is forcing you to use social media. If you don't want to see something you don't have to. On the flip side you should consider that some people like the

• echelon 3y ago
  > Nobody is forcing you to use social media. If you don't want to see something you don't have to. > People have their own needs that are met by social media. If yours aren't, maybe consider that you aren't the target audience? The internet isn't for me? That's interesting. I was here first and then the platforms came and ripped apart our old methods of high-signal communication. RSS, IRC, and forums are ghost towns or dead. Replaced with anger amplification and marketing money printers. My response to this is that we can perhaps begin filtering out these voices and negative remarks with AI and NLP. That could make social media broadly useful again, even if the platform owners themselves would be opposed.
  • mxkopy 3y ago
    No, the internet is not for you. It's used by billions of people around the planet. What I'm hearing is basically "the poors are making too much noise for my liking." Well, prepare to get eaten I guess.
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    • echelon 3y ago
      Sigh.
    • whythre 3y ago
      Enshittification is happening everywhere. I also mourn the vanishing old internet. Social media is increasingly difficult to curate, and our search engines are compromised to the point they don’t work. We are at the mercy of algorithms that are measurably driving young people insane, and you are like ‘lol at least lots of people use it, get destroyed.’ That doesn’t seem like a very thoughtful or measured response.
      • mxkopy 3y ago
        Confounding enshittification with people daring to express negativty in 'echelon's internet' is lacking empathy. Platform creep is a problem. People looking for validity in their emotions is not. Anyone who says the internet, a resource used by billions of people, and prescribes changes that suit their personal preferences, is probably narcissistic too.