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Much out of touch with reality. That is not possible to control human nature with tech.

• willvarfar 2y ago
  Humans are incredibly easy to 'control' with tech. From pamphlets to books to radio and onwards through history to colour revolutions and influencing elections to getting you to buy things late at night that you won't ever use etc, its happening all the time.
  • v3ss0n 2y ago
    Not to those who are determined to be toxic.
• mapt 2y ago
  Every interaction you have with a social network nudges you into one mode of interacting or other. The biggest deviation from the norm with Twitter is the ideas of quote-tweeting and subtweeting, making a new post rather than replying to something you disagree with in the comments. The automatic signal boost this achieves incentivizes it strongly, and when the larger account is the quote-tweeting account, they are inclined to hear reply comments almost exclusively from people who support their critique. The structural decision to make this form of interaction easy and productive leads to very Twitter-specific sort of toxic groupthink. "You, a Twitter nobody, just disagreed with someone on their misinterpretation of a well-documented point of history. In response, they made a new post to their 700k followers calling you a chickenshit know-nothing. Your followers heard nothing. 300 of their followers have piled on to elaborate on your faults." This used to be limited to the sort of instant cancellation associated with "Central Park Karen," who IIRC went viral just after boarding a flight and was fired before she landed.