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The real question is why did so many people even start?

• add-sub-mul-div 10mo ago
  It was an innocent and naive time. We didn't know and can be excused for not having foreseen or listened to the warnings about the ways it was going to be used against us. Optimism was a luxury. My question is, knowing what we know now, why are so many prostrating themselves to those who are selling us the new breakthrough that they're going to use to hurt us more than help us? This time, there's no excuse to fall for it.
  • cindyllm 10mo ago
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• duxup 10mo ago
  I liked seeing what friends and acquaintances were up to and their pics… I miss that.
• rexpop 10mo ago
  My fellow humans' experiences are inherently valuable to me, and believe my contributions are, likewise, valuable to them. This is, as far as I know, a fundamental and universal aspect of the human experience. Isn't that obvious?
  • fuzzfactor 10mo ago
    I know what you mean. I knew people were going to get a lot out of it, and enshittification took a while to set in, not exactly as I would have expected. But why so many after the human experience had been compromised badly enough for it to be pushed to the margins?
• JojoFatsani 10mo ago
  Not sure how old you are but in the advent days in the 00’s it was wonderful staying connected to the people you care about in a somewhat insulated space with no algorithm suggested content/engagement-driving rage bait or ads.. within 7-8 years it all went to shit in the name of monetization. Nowadays, i don’t have time or mental energy to moderate my reactions to rage bait, i know that nobody important would give a fuck about my 120 character takes (since i’ve seen enough to know that i don’t care about others’), and I don’t need current or future employers and/or potential state actors foreign or domestic to form preconceived notions about me.