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newcomersStop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
Prodigy was upset that people were, by and large, using the free communication service they tossed on there just to have more content and not their weird Random Garbage You Don’t Need Storefront. And in many ways, that complaint has only gotten louder over the decades. Stop talking to each other and start buying things. Stop providing content for free and start paying us for the privilege. Stop shining sunlight on horrors and start advocating for more of them. Stop making communities and start weaponizing misinformation to benefit your betters.
It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.
Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed.
This article explains, in brutally straightforward terms, what is wrong with the internet in general and social media in particular, and why we can't have nice things. Whynewcomers is necessary, a catchall for future waves of refugees fleeing the latest collapsing (sabotaged) platform, why it follows reddit_refugees and before that twitter_refugees. Because most people just want to connect with some friends, and other people see the internet only as a way to pick people's pockets. That's a problem. That is everyone's problem. All we can do is make the best places we can, and hold onto each other however we can.
Prodigy was upset that people were, by and large, using the free communication service they tossed on there just to have more content and not their weird Random Garbage You Don’t Need Storefront. And in many ways, that complaint has only gotten louder over the decades. Stop talking to each other and start buying things. Stop providing content for free and start paying us for the privilege. Stop shining sunlight on horrors and start advocating for more of them. Stop making communities and start weaponizing misinformation to benefit your betters.
It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.
Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed.
This article explains, in brutally straightforward terms, what is wrong with the internet in general and social media in particular, and why we can't have nice things. Why
newcomers is necessary, a catchall for future waves of refugees fleeing the latest collapsing (sabotaged) platform, why it follows reddit_refugees and before that twitter_refugees. Because most people just want to connect with some friends, and other people see the internet only as a way to pick people's pockets. That's a problem. That is everyone's problem. All we can do is make the best places we can, and hold onto each other however we can.
