 Heard on HN re: #Reddit > We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with #SocialMedia. We formed connections and communities and friendships [but] those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake. 8 comments
@smallcircles tbh when i used to run my city server i couldn't understand why anyone would post valuable content on other people's servers. But people didn't think about it that way   @smallcircles I don't mind most of my relationships being structured around an economic one, what I dislike about IG/twitter/telegram type space is the manipulation by very powerful forces, which probably inevitably goes with capitalism.  @smallcircles This is the first time I have recognized what's going on right now. I am an old luddite but I trust you tech guys&gals to win. @smallcircles THANK You - great words! Also on this thread: "We spent so many years crowdsourcing these curated knowledge bases on a variety of subjects for free to the point that it's empowered the controlling companies to firewall them now and then make our input a commodity that they can turn around and sell to us....They take our words and ideas and give nothing back in return." |
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