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BEAUTIFUL. We need more of this. Fuck these companies. I've personally seen just how powerful these dopamine control mechanisms really are. I'll click on some interesting youtube short, then suddenly 30 mins are gone and I'm sitting there in the middle of something else, just teleported into the future with no explanation of what happened.
This type of social media is absolutely contributing to the downfall of Western society.
Took necessary too long to understand that IG means Instagram.
Hope he gets his ass whooped at the trial.
Last big trial they just settled. I don't see anything different happening here.
There is really no way around this: either social media companies publish their algorithms and allow you to choose one of many, or they have to be held accountable for the damages caused by their algorithm.
Book publishers have existed within the narrow confines of publishing rules forever, and social media companies think they can do whatever they want to increasingly young users. This could only result in massive catastrophe, and somehow it feels like they even knew about it and didn't care.
But if they do that, 99% of people will select “show posts from the accounts I follow in chronological order” and where will the poor billionaires be then?
Oh noes! I didn't think of that! They would end up on Poverty Island with the other poor millionaires!
I'm not sure people would actually do that. People are already drugged by these apps; a slow boring algorithm wouldn't give them the dopamine hit they get every time they open Instagram or TikTok.
Good. Fuck 'em!
The only thing that will doom Meta is if they haven’t managed to bribe Trump enough.
Sorry but that headline is just stupid. No sentence passed against tech companies allied with the Trump regime will ever be enforced as long as he is president. It will always just end with Trump going "ooh youve been naughty boys, give me a few billion and i will let it go". This is what happened before exactly like that and i have no reason to believe that it will change.