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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res ipsa ☺︎
@resipsa
following to be enlightened there are some remnants of awareness in the mainstream from The Social Dilemma on Netflix a few years back, and popular books like Dopamine Nation/Stolen Focus/etc as someone who has been thinking about social media and consumer products for work, i am not optimistic that existing internet capital structures are setting us up for success. social media leverages an instinct so primal to us that time and time again if left to our own devices we have shown that we will let our products race to the bottom
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Stephan
@stephancill
existing structures almost definitely not. beyond that i'm worried about whether this is even fixable incentives in the feed-based social paradigm
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res ipsa ☺︎
@resipsa
i’m inclined to agree. the inherent structure of internet social networks necessitates certain behaviors. i think the solution is in having more compelling alternatives that give people the comfort to collectively opt-out. we are kind of very slowly seeing that. it is now considered a luxury in some circles to not participate in social media. people are retreating back to more intimate settings. we were aggressively trying to make the whole world fit in the glass screen in our hands, and now we are realizing maybe we just want to focus on getting along with our neighbors. but we’ve spent 20+ years building for exposure-maxxing and the UX for sub-Dunbar internet networks really hasn’t changed other than cursory facelifts
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