Stephan
@stephancill
where are people discussing how to address the fact that social platforms are accelerating the decline of society? would love to spend more time talking to people who also care about this
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
wrote my Master's thesis about it in 2014, happy to chat :)
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Stephan
@stephancill
No way, that’s awesome! Is it published somewhere?
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
It was in Polish, so I don't think so. tl;dr I did research on how does information-dense environment influence levels of understanding complex concepts. my thesis was that social media are making people think more shallowly and my research supported it it was a pretty contrarian view back then. not many papers about this subject existed, with the most famous one focusing on relationships between Facebook usage and narcissism. i started writing the thesis two years before Tristan Harris left Google and started educating the world about the problems with ad-based business models :)
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Stephan
@stephancill
incredible. you seem like the perfect person to lead the discussion somewhere :) are you hanging out in any online circles that discuss these things frequently that i can join?
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
not really, there used to be a Facebook group called Friends of Time Well Spent ran by Tristan Harris but it was about a decade ago... I got to the point where I just want to limit my own usage and build better alternatives. This is why I worked on Kiwi and this is why I use Farcaster - i think that different monetization models for social media can solve at least some of these problems.
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
Aside from Farcaster I am very bearish on feed-based social apps, and super bullish on groupchat-based social apps (Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord etc.)
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