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I've never had a Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Myspace whatevertheF account and I've never felt like I was missing out. Social media can be great, if by

I've never had a Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Myspace whatevertheF account and I've never felt like I was missing out. Social media can be great, if by social media you mean: something like IRC/Discord, or something ultra-simplistic like HN. Anything else and you're making a bad trade. People keep trying to find a way to have their cake and eat it too, despite decades of clearly seeing that you can't. I'm starting to become very tired of this victim-mentality that demands the convenience of highly centralized, moderated, and connected algorithmic social media, but ALSO want it to be run the way they think it should be. You want out of the "cage"? Log off.

apothegm 2y ago
Most people don’t know they’re in the cage. Most of the rest don’t know how to keep in touch with their friends without it. Or worse, they’re literally addicted to it because it’s deliberately designed to administer a steady trickle of dopamine.
mindslight 2y ago
The whole point of the article is that significant numbers of other people being in the memetic cage will affect you, regardless of whether you yourself see through it.