[LooseMarmoset]

Social media won because it is better and more profitable for the producer/site owner.

It is objectively worse for the consumer:

* Algorithms that push content the user didn't ask for/dark patterns

* Prioritizes low-attention span/doomscrolling

* Magnifies the most virulent outrage-driven content, often by the very people that commit the outrage, and profits from that outrage

Social media as currently implemented by everyone is a cancer.

[xandrius]

I don't think you were there when the switch started to happen in the mid 2000s.

All these are things which came after they "won".

[kjshsh123]

Like I said, these are negative internalities. I don't think most users care about these negative impacts on themselves.