Social Media Escape Club
On Appnesia and Other Ailments
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“There are two ways for your content to gain immediate traction: somebody references it or an algorithm serves it. Both provide liquidity to your content, distributing it to interested consumers.
If you write something amazing, a few emails to some key people in your field is all you need to start this process.”
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As we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in... See more
“The villain here is not necessarily the internet, or even the idea of social media,” she writes. “It is the invasive logic of commercial social media, and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction.” The business model of platforms like this — which rely on advertising and clicks and “engagement”
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I noticed that one of my scheduled tweets had gone viral.
I thought it's quite telling that I hadn't noticed this in any way otherwise.
I thought it's quite telling that I hadn't noticed this in any way otherwise.
Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless
“Mari got me to pull the plug on my Sp*tify subscription recently and it has been liberating to not see the statistics and industry-imposed/applied rankings next to the names of the artists i listen to. staying away from social media has also been a great relief for similar feelings of inadequacy, doubt, and envy.”
Claire Rousay
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