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A comment on Cal Newport: It's Time to Dismantle the Technopoly.

Re:Cal Newport: It's Time to Dismantle the Technopoly by Animats on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:12PM (#38690165)
He doesn't talk about monopoly much. Mostly about social media in general.

The network effects for social media are so strong as to push most people to the winning platform. Even without being a pre-installed default, Facebook and Twitter win. Google has to pay $47 billion a year to be the pre-installed default, indicating that their network effect is weaker.

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Re:Cal Newport: It's Time to Dismantle the Technopoly by scyzoryk_xyz on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:19PM (#38690627)
That’s because he doesn’t talk about monopoly at all. It’s more about how we use these things and how frequently we’ve switched outlooks on them since 2016.

The monopoly stuff is something we’re just barely starting to take any issue with here in 2023. But it remains an insider/tech topic.

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