When this is over, we're going to owe Musk a debt of gratitude for demonstrating not just the folly of relying on sociopath billionaires to give us places to speak and collaborate.
He's demonstrated the danger inherent in all centralized services where one person or company can control what we say and do.
@pino @dangillmor @Bam I would place the blame a little on everyone..
Of course, the process of what ”racing to the bottom of the brainstem” does with social media has been new, and hard to see.
And the well-meaning starts of these companies did a good job of obscuring what happens when they turned their engagement maximisation -boosting algorithms to the max.
But the fact that we played along and took their game as a given, adapted to it even, that’s on us.
@gimulnautti
Well, I'm not smart, but I said to everybody that it is dangerous to centralize all global communication in the hand of a few silicon valley shops. At day 1. I never used that crap. Not FB, Twitter, Insta, WA, ... Was it just a lucky coincidence with my stupidity? I still cannot understand why virtually nobody else around me wanted to get it, ~15y ago. They actually kind of understood partially, deep inside, but they all managed to find excuses and trivialized it.
Dan Gillmor
Toni Aittoniemi
pino