The follow lie, and why it's worse than ever

Post by pixodaros » Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #38

manuelmoreale wrote: post #35

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Everything is dead until it isn’t anymore. RSS was dead and yet people are rediscovering it and plenty of people are still using it. Blogs were dead and yet plenty of people are creating new ones. Email is dead and yet newsletters are growing in popularity. Young people simply use whatever is trending at the time they start using the web. Most of them don’t even know that there are alternatives. I heard from plenty o…

Any stats to back that up? All of those things feel untrue. If I went out on the street and asked people what RSS is, I suspect it would take me a very long time before I encountered a single person who could answer. Marketing emails are just annoying. Email is where my receipts and bills go. Anything else is spam crowding out the important stuff.

Post by Nevermark » Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 1:14 AM UTC

MyFedora wrote: post #40

Nevermark wrote: post #21

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Yes the 100% natural candy they gave you, surreptitiously laced with addictive substances, did what it was supposed to! By the time you are addicted, they don't care that you know. (The line between addiction, and highly reinforced habit, is a continuum. But it is all insidious. Your choice and will was hacked by deception, before you had an informed choice to not even start.)

When I check out YouTube's home page, I usually find recommendations for cool stuff like https://youtu.be/Loq-YHYGZy8 , https://youtu.be/xb_g7qNCpuo , or https://youtu.be/8iPoXZuzlUg . This isn't the stereotypical, braindead content everyone complains about. It's actually relevant to what I watch. A lot of these come from smaller creators who post a mix of topics, which means the traditional subscriber model flat out…