"Confused, dependent users are more profitable than competent, autonomous ones. Lock-in is more valuable than interoperability. Opacity is more valuable than transparency. The architecture of modern consumer technology has been optimized against user competence with extraordinary success"
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"It’s about being able to make informed choices instead of having choices made for you by systems optimized for someone else’s revenue"

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The platforms are making your information diet worse on purpose, because worse converts to engagement, and engagement converts to revenue" [2/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The algorithm situation is the one that most directly affects daily life and receives the least serious scrutiny. […] These systems are explicitly not neutral — they’re optimized for engagement, which empirically correlates with outrage, anxiety, conflict, and tribal reinforcement, because those emotional states produce the behavioral signals the engagement metrics reward" [1/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"Whoever holds your behavioral data holds power over you. That’s true whether or not you’ve done anything wrong" [2/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

"The problem is not, primarily, that services collect data. The problem is that users have been convinced to treat pervasive surveillance infrastructure as benign or beneficial, and to respond to any criticism of it as paranoia, technical elitism, or failure to appreciate convenience. The learned helplessness is the crisis. The data collection is the symptom" [1/2]

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

Going to take the liberty of adding a few noteworthy quotes below to remind me as to why I am here (#Mastodon) nowadays 😅👇🏻

"This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos"

#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia

I am personally annoyed because I was part in #Web20 - not as a developer or an investor, just advocating. And I don’t want to be put in the same bucket.

Sometimes I ask myself if I was the same as the genAI hype people when I talked about Web 2.0. I still believe I wasn’t.
What’s definitely different is that we / I put people in the center while now the owner class sees potential to avoid paying for people. That may also be the reason that there is a bubble right now.