Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by ianai on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:48AM
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If the majority (vast majority) of users of the internet rarely break out of social media and you posit that social media is largely 'dead', then isn't the internet effectively dead for the vast majority of users?
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What does it even mean for it to be dead for the majority of users if it was never alive for that same majority?
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by WalterSear on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:43AM
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Maybe a better term for it is the zombie internet.
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:57AM
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If largest social media platforms all went *pOoF!* today, where would our dead-headed majority be in a year?
Just a wild guess based on past 2 years, but probably outside.
One or two of the remaining smaller social media platforms?
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by doubled112 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:18AM
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Would those smaller social media platforms then be large, end up commercialized some how, smaller ones pop up, and something else take over until we repeat the process?
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by marginalia_nu on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:20AM
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Is that necessarily a bad thing?
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by qikInNdOutReply on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:21AM
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Something like TV but it makes me feel good about myself.
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by tenebrisalietum on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:55AM
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Yes, and let's celebrate!
Access to the real, genuine Internet people and places will be made invisible; protected by the gargantuan SEO-fed lipid-berg of AI-generated content, keeping the social media peasantry ever-corralled in the cattle pen where they shall be kept happy and fed by their keepers.
Is September 2022 the final Eternal September?
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by marginalia_nu on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:59AM
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The problem isn't really with the internet, but a handful of websites that have come to mediate the internet for a lot of people (despite appearances to the contrary, the two are not the same).
This is a critical distinction, because the former is a problem like "the water is too wet", like you can't really fix that. You can build new digital infrastructure though. That's a solvable problem.
And then that new infrastructure will be subverted just as the current one has been. I don't think this is an issue that can be solved through engineering. I think the problem lies in different domain.
Re:The coming tsunami of fakery
by harimau777 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:41PM
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Can't we just build a new infrastructure at that point? The current infrastructure worked well for about a decade. If we have to rebuild every decade then that's not so bad.