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I want Meta to die for certain. I wouldn't mind Facebook sticking around if it can stop incentivizing the spread of misinformation, stop radicalizing my parents
by ToucanLoucan 2y ago
I want Meta to die for certain. I wouldn't mind Facebook sticking around if it can stop incentivizing the spread of misinformation, stop radicalizing my parents, and stop abusing the mental health of it's users in the name of promoting engagement.
None of these social networks are inherently wrong in that they shouldn't exist as technology, it's just they are all subject to the same perverse incentives that drive them to make their products socially corrosive is the issue.
- otikik 2y agoDon’t those incentives make them inherently wrong?
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI don't think so? Like, having a website where you can add your friends and create groups and share things between one another is very nice. It's why so many products have grown up with this being the (supposed) goal. Social networking can be quite fun and useful when it wants to be. It's just then the company isn't making (enough) money and starts enshittifying itself to do so, almost universally at the expense of the user experience and in some cases, user safety.