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It's a slippery slope though, because the corrosive effect of the attention economy trying to skew social platform interactions to their benefit. Some platform
by ethbr1 3y ago
It's a slippery slope though, because the corrosive effect of the attention economy trying to skew social platform interactions to their benefit.
Some platforms are less aggressive about it, some more, but they all control their own levers of power and to some degree abuse them.
E.g. Facebook Marketplace being locked into an identity in the rest of their ecosystem
So absolutely, use efficient tools to do more, but also be aware of the opinions and intent of those tools, and what they're trying to do to you.
- cykros 3y agoFacebook is the modern day equivalent of AOL. It's where people are kept corralled to keep the rest of the Internet fun. The problem is, there's a lot more AOL-like platforms these days, to some degree or other. IRC has turned mostly vacant. Perhaps there's greener pastures in the Matrix space, because Discord is pretty hit or miss, always with the understanding that the great eye in the sky might smite the server at any moment.