Bluesky got so much right but the premise of social media rewards chasing attention. Once the cheat codes are known everyone plays the same way. There is a common experience with new social media platforms where everyone loves them when they are small and specialist, then when the floodgates open they revert to type___L... See more

honest question to my audience: what’s the solution here? the Internet is /obviously/ responsible for the mass de-socialization of our society, but also responsible for massive economic, cultural, and material value. we can’t roll it back. so what DO we do?