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This piece really, really deserves a read: Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

beehaw.org Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media - Beehaw

This article from 2022 does a very good job of capturing the social media landscape and the condition of political discourse right now. It highlights one thing that I’ve been hearing a lot and agree with, the cruelty is the point.

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media - Beehaw

It's beautiful.

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  • This is the angry, raw, user side of what @[email protected] refers to as "enshittification". This is the user experience that I have had over and over again. This absolutely deserves a read, and will hopefully inspire lots of us to fight like hell to keep corpo interests out of our free exchange of ideas and fediverse.

    I am not a product. I am not a program. I am a user.