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Quit Social Media (2016)

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Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by lou1306 »

I'd reckon the median user is not someone who has been "publishing blog posts multiple times a day, seven days a week" at any point of their life and that the most likely risk is mindless consumption rather than endless production. But just quit following random strangers on the Internet, keep social media as a way to maintain your irw network of relations, and you'll usually be alright.

Sure, then we can discuss about the inherent issues of the platforms (which are many), but first one has to exploit their own agency to the utmost degree.

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by Kye »

immibis wrote: post #27
Kye wrote: post #9

(2016) Especially important because most of his commentary focuses on the dominant social media paradigm of the time. Mastodon barely existed when this post went live, Mike Masnick was years from writing the paper that inspired Bluesky[0], and it would be strange if someone whose whole thing is getting away from social media kept up on new developments. This post is an interesting historical artifact, but shouldn't b…

Isn't Bluesky just a copy of Twitter from that era, anyway?

Bluesky was supposed to replace Twitter and turn it into a federated platform.

Some details on its creation and exit from Twitter here: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-...

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by AlienRobot »

keiferski wrote: post #82
kikokikokiko wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the company you work for REALLY does behave like that, you SHOULD DEFINITELY advertise it. Companies like this must be acknowledged and celebrated. The owner must be a really good person.

Unfortunately people love to complain about ads, but rarely actually get their wallets out when an alternative payment method is presented. Case in point: the frequent archive.org links to get around paywalls.

That's sickening, honestly.

IA is a tool to help you access websites that literally can't be accessed ever again otherwise. It's a noble and beautiful project.

Some people use it just to get free stuff, to commit piracy, to infringe upon copyright. It's a perversion of what it was meant for.

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by malfist »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #109
malfist wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google's autocorrect "corrects" words it thought you meant, sometimes words later so you don't see it. I put arguing, but Google decided I meant thinking

That's some spooky shit right there. Is this a Chrome thing?

Nah, the android Gboard. Super frustrating. And the toggle to turn off that "feature" is shared with all autocorrection. If you disable grammar corrections you don't get any typo fixes. And there's no setting that says "only change the last word I typed"

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

> “I decided, after 15 years, to live in reality.”

This is the crux of the matter. Social media isn’t real; it’s a type of video game for adults.

The unreality fosters the growth of so many other things which are even less concerned with truth: fake news, engagement bait, daily outrages, chasing followers in a vain attempt to “build a personal brand.” The vacuousness of influencer culture has only accelerated these trends since Newport wrote this post.

In some sense, some of us already live online essentially through these social networks. Almost always this means some level of addiction, with concomitant real life consequences.

Is it really worth it?

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by gilbetron »

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #118

> “I decided, after 15 years, to live in reality.” This is the crux of the matter. Social media isn’t real; it’s a type of video game for adults. The unreality fosters the growth of so many other things which are even less concerned with truth: fake news, engagement bait, daily outrages, chasing followers in a vain attempt to “build a personal brand.” The vacuousness of influencer culture has only accelerated these t…

Problem is that it is becoming a new reality. You can tune out, but you can't turn it off, and it (and society) will continue without it. And I say this as someone who thinks we should largely turn it off. Society will adapt, which means society is becoming something different.

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by thisismyswamp »

freediver wrote: post #6

I would rephrase it to “quit ad-based social media”. The incentives are perverse, there is an inherent conflict of interest in the business model and there is an intermediary between the user and information/community they want to participate in. This leads to most problems we see in legacy, ad-based, social media. Most successful social circles are ones where there is a barrier to entry. In life we do not let everyo…

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