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For every big tech dystopic platform going all wack there is some "the old greeks complained about kids these days" going my way.

Social media need to go. It is bad for us. I don't support a ban but at least the ban indicates there is some sort of room for counterculture. I think only a cultural mindset change works and it cam't be top down.



I think that the operational incentives for advertising-funded, for-profit social media make them unavoidably bad.

Conceptually, a digital means of communicating life’s events between friends needn’t be terrible, but … the impulse to self-promote is human, and ultimately destructive.




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