Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
by chmod775 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:37AM
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A restaurant exists explicitly to serve food first. If you're still there an hour after paying your bill, they'll start asking polite questions.
A café, in most places, is a place for hanging out that makes money on the assumption that people will like refreshments, snacks or even small meals while doing so. They're typically not going to ask you to leave just because you haven't gotten anything in an hour or two (unless they're full). The exception appears to be some places where coffeehouses think they're a theme park ride.
Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
by morpheos137 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @01:28PM
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The current situation is like if 90% of bar or restaurant patrons went to one of three multinational chains all of which secretly recorded patron conversations in order to sell ads while giving away cheap food.
Cafés and restaurants handle this well. I think it is because they “commoditize their complement”[1], i.e. you’re allowed to talk while you consume. (Not too loud, though.)
[1] https://www.gwern.net/Complement