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I'm old enough to remember when Google was good. I don't think this is a scenario you have thought through. Now, the problem with social networks is that they
by boxed 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Google was good. I don't think this is a scenario you have thought through.
Now, the problem with social networks is that they all are going for maximum market share. Which is the same as going for toxic and divisive communities. The collapse of Usenet in the Eternal September was just the opening salvo. It has happened to Facebook, it happened to Twitter, it has already happened to Threads (that place is worse than twitter now by far!), and it happened to many other less known things in between.
Any IRC channel above a certain size becomes toxic or useless or both, any Discord. Any group of people in the same room all screaming.
The solution isn't to ban big corporations. The solution is to build smaller "cells" with limited "immigration".
- vouaobrasil 2y agoWell, if large corporations are banned, then large social networks could not exist easily since no one would have the resources to run them. So, I still stand by destroying large tech corporations.
- boxed 2y agoYea, but Google really ushered in an era of making the internet MUCH more useful for decades. Then they destroyed it all, but for a while it was great.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoI don't agree.