Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by browningstreet on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:00AM
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Social networks changed the world, and are now predominant in the world we live in. It's like when someone pollutes water. Our society and culture are water, and social networks are... pollutants. It's fine and normal and good to want to look at the superfund site that is our global culture and want to push social networks out of the very-toxic pollutant it happens to be, and into something we can all abide, even for those who only drink beer or use charcoal filters. Plus, you never know what the kids next door are doing with the water...
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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by comfypotato on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:53PM
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The pollutants are people as they’ve always been.
Social media is a natural progression of society. It has all the same positives and negatives of an local social structure.
Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by mym1990 on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:41PM
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Is there really a "natural" progression of society? Especially in an age of computers and advanced communication, it is difficult to know what is natural anymore.
Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by comfypotato on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:43PM
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I didn’t mean natural in that sense. Smart-phone-social-media would be unnatural in the same sense that the wheel is unnatural. (In that it wasn’t present for most 99% of our evolution.)
Humans didn’t evolve with access to semiconductors, but the social dynamics in social networks have always been there. They’ve just been augmented by semiconductors.
I doubt anyone here would disagree with me that it’s better having more ways to communicate with relatives overseas. That’s all I’m really saying. These new methods of communication come with serious baggage, but they’re still inherently positive I think.