new internet
⏧ (@syntacrobat.xyz)
bsky.app
🚨This is the trap that social media, and by extension all of us, are in:
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
special fish
special.fish
Social Computing | CS 278
web.stanford.edu
The Collective Intelligence Project
cip.org
The internet really w as better, back before it turned into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four.”
Enshitternet – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
“these platforms make it impossible to represent your full multidimensional self... your whole self can never exist in a single space.”