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Paying for a service that agrees to not use or collect data on me, except to provide the service as I request it to, is the healthy model. No perverse incentive
by Nevermark 2y ago
Paying for a service that agrees to not use or collect data on me, except to provide the service as I request it to, is the healthy model. No perverse incentives.
That would eliminate ads, but also surveillance and feed manipulation. Let me actually control my own feed.
Ads are just one way Facebook uses surveillance to manipulate its users. They use follow and like choices as surveillance info to insert unrequested “sticky” posts, instead of just honoring them as user features.
- lupire 2y agoLots of impossible things are hypothetically healthy.
- Nevermark 2y agoHypothetically healthy doesn’t become in-reality healthy if you don’t talk about it. Open source has evolved in response to solving practical and moral problems of sharing code and being able to validate and adapt code, in ways that benefit many people. Clearly, social media, and the commercial surveillance and ad ecosystems, are areas that desperately need similar attention.