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Not just Twitter almost all of social media apps are net negative for humanity.
by leosanchez 10mo ago
Not just Twitter almost all of social media apps are net negative for humanity.
- theoreticalmal 10mo agoExcept Hacker News :)
- iwdnqindjwn 10mo ago[dead]
- saulpw 10mo 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 10mo agoDon't forget "personalized" feed/home.
- etempleton 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo agoyes. precisely.
- pardon_me 10mo agoSocial control media.