Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoStudy: Social media probably can’t be fixedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down113
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minus-squarechaosCruiser@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-228 days agoAmazon, Google and Microsoft would still be there, so the Internet seems to be suffering from a metastatic cancer at this point. Cutting off two revolting lumps helps, but the prognosis doesn’t look that great.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·28 days agoNone of those have had much success in creating social networks that suck people in quite like the others Not to say they don’t have their own problems, but the bulk of problems with social media come squarely from meta & twitter.
minus-squarechaosCruiser@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoThat’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.
Amazon, Google and Microsoft would still be there, so the Internet seems to be suffering from a metastatic cancer at this point. Cutting off two revolting lumps helps, but the prognosis doesn’t look that great.
None of those have had much success in creating social networks that suck people in quite like the others
Not to say they don’t have their own problems, but the bulk of problems with social media come squarely from meta & twitter.
That’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.