Repost, but worth it.
This is what the “Luddite” attitude to technology actually is. It’s also important to remember that “recommendation” models are also a problem, it’s not just the slop generators that need to go.
Repost, but worth it.
This is what the “Luddite” attitude to technology actually is. It’s also important to remember that “recommendation” models are also a problem, it’s not just the slop generators that need to go.
In the words of Terrance McKenna create your own culture. He says a lot of other crazy shit too, but it resonates with me more in a world of dark patterns turning everything from payment models for adobe, to ride share driver pay into a zynga farmville game. Half the youtubers I watches maybe 10 years ago got bought up by some big corporate network, and all the podcasts are direct mouth peices for tech fascist, and the epstine class. Like all big tech guys own real news outlets, and we have the FBI, CIA, trump, elon, etc doing flat out pysops and limited hangouts for podcasts like the nelk boys or Joe rogan.
I don’t think people understand how much of their world view gets distilled because they are stuck in a certain demographic. With the power of magazines we convinced girls to develop eating disorders, woth the power of television we controlled narrative on vietnam, while smearing civil rights acivists.
Lets make a example person, maybe a trump guy only watches Joe rogan, dude perfect, and whatever gun youtubers there are, so his feed is dictating what demographic the algorithm shows him. He probably only gets ads for erectile distinction, sports betting, trucks, and gun accessories. His news feed probably only shows him news about gun laws that “restrict his freedoms”, or trivial nonsense like Joe rogan making up shit about litter boxes being in school bathrooms for furries. Anything outside of that world just simply doesn’t exist. This person probably has kids, and a full time job meaning they probably only get 2-4 hours to them self’s at most through out the day. So they some how have to filter through all that nonsense, while also fighting the urge to do many other addictive apps and social media platforms, like porn and sports betting.
We all here kind of taken the first steps to separating ourselfs from the toxic advertisement science driven culture machine being on the fediverse, we could all aspire to try to help the place grow and make more communities. I respect the people who make their own server and post there every day even when no one comes. I do think federated spaces are extremely important and are required for a society without social disfunction to exist. Its clear what happens when money gets involved, we end up with Cambridge analytica, and what ever tiktok/insta did to kids brains.