Stop Looking At Each Other
When feeds are algorithmic, they appear differently to different people: It’s impossible to know what someone else is seeing at a given time, and thus harder to feel a sense of community with others online, the sense of collectivity you might feel when watching a movie
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Moskowitz blames techno-capitalism’s monetisation of human emotion. Social platforms, they argue, create environments in which users willingly contort themselves into ever more extreme versions of themselves – louder, cringier, more exposed – just to be seen. It’s the natural byproduct of systems that reward emotional spectacle and penalise silence... See more
Humiliation Rituals
The everyday madness perpetuated by the internet is the madness of this architecture, which positions personal identity as the center of the universe. It’s as if we’ve been placed on a lookout that oversees the entire world and given a pair of binoculars that makes everything look like our own reflection. Through social media, many people have quic
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