• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Look, as an American technophile and web services developer, it would be the best thing for us. Just turn the Internet off. It was a bad fucking idea. Force people to interact with the people around them instead of self-selecting their social circle.

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      1 month ago

      The internet wasn’t a bad idea, we just somehow failed to see how letting billionaires seize the reins of a new global media empire could go badly - despite it being a story as old as time by now…

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        1 month ago

        I guess it comes down to how much is manipulation of algorithms and how much is just human nature. I don’t know the answer to that but I’m feeling pretty cynical right now.