When Facebook came around we all knew it would be a disaster, and it was.
When TikTok/Instagram replaced it, we knew it would be worse, and it was.
Now we have LLMs that vanishingly few people in the greater public actually understand and we know they'll be used for every possible evil imaginable at scale. I'm not optimistic.
Actually, Instagram was pretty sane for a long time. Until recently it just showed me who I followed and nothing else.
Now they're trying to complete with TikTok and I get all these crappy suggested reels and it's turning me off the platform. But for a long time it was pretty good unlike Facebook that ruined itself with its algorithmic feed.
> When Facebook came around we all knew it would be a disaster, and it was.
Not really. When Facebook started as college exclusive social site it seem quite innocent. Later when it created news-feed, opened up to everyone etc it became a cesspool. Once people started getting their news from it, that's when it became dangerous.
When TikTok/Instagram replaced it, we knew it would be worse, and it was.
Now we have LLMs that vanishingly few people in the greater public actually understand and we know they'll be used for every possible evil imaginable at scale. I'm not optimistic.
See you all in the hellish afterscape.