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Bias aside, you present fair counters to my position. However, I still think the leveraging of FOMO is what drives us in the wrong direction with social media. If the market (us, basically) had the general attitude of "if I miss a post, I miss a post, oh well" the advert-based models wouldn't be as effective as they are, incentive would shrink, and we'd probably have an Internet that was closer to the original intention. That, however, is strong speculation on my part and I am hyper-aware of that, but having watched social media (as an adult) emerge and become what it is today, it's exceedingly difficult for me to unsee that pattern.

We can perhaps agree to disagree on that, but I'm considering your other points.

[_heimdall]

Just my two cents, but I've always viewed FOMO and the ad-based algorithm as two sides of a feedback loop.

FOMO is the psychological response that the ad-based algorithm is playing off of, neither one is the problem in and of itself.