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DSR wrote:

I couldn’t have said anything to amplify your article.

Signed,
Coming from the days of USENET

Norbert Senf wrote:

Cory Doctorow nailed when he coined the term "enshittification" to describe this phenomenon.

Elliot wrote:

Great take. Sort of inspires a thought about a clean, ethical social media platform. Not to suggest anyone could build one. Maybe a Mastodon skin with black text on a white background and infinite scroll turned off.

Aneesh R wrote:

Hi. Nice post. If anyone or any senator is reading this page, I have one simple solution for the problem of radicalisation and addiction over the internet. Pass a law that will require these social media companies to give users the right to turn off their feeds. For example, check YouTube. We can turn off the feed. The app is not addictive. I go to YouTube with a specific intention to find information about something. All this happens because YouTube allows users to turn off their feeds. So all the companies should do that. They owe it to the public.

Alistair Lattimore wrote:

I stopped using Facebook years ago for this very reason. It became progressively less relevant to me from the notifications they'd surface to the content in the feed.

I find the X "For You" vs "Following" tab to do a good job of showing me the stuff I care about. A single blended list serves too many masters, but letting me pick "Following" gives me what I asked for overall.

0xMrVinyl wrote:

Same here. Really glad you wrote this. I jumped into the Lens protocol (now Lens Chain) about two and a half years ago. Most of the apps I started with are long gone, but orb.club is holding it down. It's a small community, but tight. Plenty of artists, music, and raw creativity. Definitely worth checking out. Thanks for putting this piece together.

Sushant wrote:

One shouldn't mistake Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for anything other than 'entertainment' apps. They are no longer platforms for connecting with people. You go there to be entertained.