Re:VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media
by addicted on Saturday March 23, 2024 @07:49AM
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That’s the point though.
The technical solutions exist. We need to do better at figuring out how to beat the power of the business model.
The hundreds of billions of dollars that the current lock-in of corporate social media brings in is a powerful tool that companies use to keep better solutions inaccessible to most people.
The other tool they use is the massive use of dark patterns and armies of phds whose only purpose is to keep you hooked onto the product they offer. Like a super drug whose mechanisms can be tailored at an individual level to maximize addiction.
The technical solutions exist. We need to do better at figuring out how to beat the power of the business model.
The hundreds of billions of dollars that the current lock-in of corporate social media brings in is a powerful tool that companies use to keep better solutions inaccessible to most people.
The other tool they use is the massive use of dark patterns and armies of phds whose only purpose is to keep you hooked onto the product they offer. Like a super drug whose mechanisms can be tailored at an individual level to maximize addiction.