• Redkey@programming.dev
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    To say that social media is just people socializing through media is rather like saying that newspapers are just news on paper.

    In both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.

    When I socialize with people offline, it looks almost nothing like modern social media “services”.

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      In both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.

      We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.