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Hopefully the enshitification of the net kills the social net splintering the web into a pre facebook era.

• throwanem 2y ago
  This is an impossible dream. Facebook has existed and the arrow of time goes only one way; there is no longer any possibility of a "pre-Facebook era," because that era has come and gone. What we would see instead would be a post-Facebook era, wherein we would still have to reckon with the social damage it and its ilk have inflicted on a fairly significant fraction of the species. It isn't a new sort of error, if that's any consolation, being in the limit no younger than the story of the Garden of Eden. But while studying the past can prove valuable in approaching the future, hoping to return to it never does.