| How do we fix social media? Let's start with the huge societal problems: - optimizing for addiction - fighting for attention People need social validation for their personalities. Social media drives people into perfectionism - yet never being enough. You need to modify your entire self image to fit somekind of hazy image of perfect whatever. You are fighting for attention, you need to do ever more crazy and better shit to get more attention. Other huge societal problems: - sensorship, misinformation, death of journalism and therefore truth and therefore democracy - centralized greedy growth-seeking monopolist culture kills innovation, creates dystopia Is a well functioning distributed system a possibility? Your own device, or your goverments, or some global 3rd party, you choose, as a host? Let's not give the control of the internet to another monopoly with hardware like amazon, or monopoly with the traffic like cloudfare or whatever. Let's avoid these giant tech monopolies. |