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Well, for Twitter it's fine. It's a private company, and the shareholders can only blame themselves for the management they put in charge. (From a broader soc
by eru 11mo ago
Well, for Twitter it's fine. It's a private company, and the shareholders can only blame themselves for the management they put in charge.
(From a broader society point of view, I'm a bit sad that they didn't actually manage to run Twitter into the ground. I think Twitter's a net-negative for humanity. But that's a different topic. People obviously like using it.)
- leosanchez 11mo agoNot just Twitter almost all of social media apps are net negative for humanity.
- theoreticalmal 11mo agoExcept Hacker News :)
- iwdnqindjwn 11mo ago[dead]
- saulpw 11mo agoThe things that make social media net-negative--advertising, infinite scroll, global scale--aren't part of HN. Facebook wasn't net-negative when it was just a website that a few million people used to post semi-publicly with their community.
- rationalist 11mo agoDon't forget "personalized" feed/home.
- etempleton 11mo agoOnce content begins being served by algorithm social networks start taking a nose dive in terms of quality and user experience and they slowly spiral into lowest common denominator smut. It juices engagement and therefore advertising dollars for a time, but slowly half of users start to recognize the vapidness of it all and disengage for good.
- eru 11mo agoHacker News is paginated, but effectively infinite, too. Though I guess that's enough of a UI friction to make a difference? How is it not global scale? Or do you mean it only target a specific slice of your life (even if it makes not much of a difference where on the globe you are)?
- walljm 11mo agoyes. precisely.
- pardon_me 11mo agoSocial control media.