Crescer sem as redes sociais

But as seen from the macro view, a diverse, bottom-up media ecosystem is in fact

not thriving

.

Instead, the inverse is happening.

Homogeneity is winning.

Anyone else feel like something’s shifting?

I’m done caring about going viral.

I’m done posting just to stay relevant.

I’m done pretending I care about algorithms.

All I want is to write what matters, grow at my own pace, stack my income streams, and spend more time offline.

Nothing else. Literally nothing else.

Who’s with me?

What we once loved about these platforms is how people shared their everyday descriptions of life, love, family, and curiosity.

According to Eleanor Stern, a TikTok video essayist with nearly a hundred thousand followers, part of the problem is that social media is more hierarchical than it used to be. “There’s this divide that wasn’t there before, between audiences and creators,” Stern said. The platforms that have the most traction with young users today—YouTube, TikTok,... See more

“The stream has dominated our lives since the mid-2000s,” Caulfield says. But it means people are either posting content or consuming it. And, Caulfield says, the internet as it stands rewards shock value and dumbing things down. “By engaging in digital gardening, you are constantly finding new connections, more depth and nuance,” he says.

Exist, not exit.

I’m no transhumanist or accelerationist, but I am however interested in adaptation and resilience over rejection and denial. We could be a lot happier, healthier and again productive if we allocated a fraction of our time and energy on conditioning ourselves to new environments and ideas, instead of fervently stressing to avoid... See more

the internet, as we have known it, has evolved from a quaint, quirky place to a social utopia, and then to an algorithmic reality. In this reality, the primary task of these platforms is not about idealism or even entertainment — it is about extracting as much revenue as possible from human vanity, avarice, and narcissism.