Cindy Cohn Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta 'Less Important' | Video
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Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    14 hours ago

    I don’t think you’ll find that the case. Most people have a problem. They are incapable of being even slightly bored.

    If you take away twittler and Facebook, they’ll readily replace them with BlueSky, YouTube and TikTok because they’re easy and low effort.

    It’s harder to read a book, do a craft, go for a walk, or anything truly enriching.

    My wife tried to exit TT when things got political. She lasted 2 weeks before she made a new non-political following account and went right back at it.

    I left Facebook quite some time ago, but have to go back regularly for my HOA bs. I still peek in on my old friendships while i’m there, but don’t engage and make sure to leave quickly.

    • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Tbh, I know this will be a hot take, but I do think Tiktok is a vastly better network. Tumblr too. These are still actual social media platforms.

      Yes, they’re deeply algorithm-based, yes they’re for-profit, capitalist networks still, but I think they are miles better than FB/Insta or Twitter/X. Have you looked at somebody’s Facebook? 90%+ of posts are corporate, political, special interest. Almost nobody actually posts anything, they just reshare an endless stream of garbage content entirely divorced from the human experience.

      At least Tiktok, despite its many legitimate problems and criticisms, is still largely a human-driven platform. It’s still a place where people are making, sharing, and consuming real human posts in the interest of connection.

      Tiktok is still social media. I genuinely don’t think FB or X have been social media in many many years.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        With you on Tumblr

        TT is scarier now that it’s ‘controlled’. in 1984 concepts, I expect they’ll be sending agents to take care of people that are anti-rightwing.

        • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          Absolutely, TT is scary and the take-over has been insanely obvious. Despite this people are still regularly making real content and connections on TT. Tiktok, the company and app themselves, are vile and disgusting, but Tiktok, the community, is still largely very decent, imo.