• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    19 hours ago

    Social media was a mistake.

    And yes, I’m aware of the irony as I use social media to say so. I do not apologize.

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      19 minutes ago

      If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.

      Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology

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      8 hours ago

      I’m not so sure. Facebook was a great tool to create local communities at first. Then it became greedy and changed the algorithm for ads and being attention driven. If you remove facebook (which I don’t use since months), it’s harder to find what’s new around you, and get out to cool events. Especially on the countryside.

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        2 hours ago

        That’s precisely why it was a mistake. People did those things before Facebook, but now? So many people have no clue how to exist without it, and all the while, it’s weaponized against people’s ignorance by bad actors who are greedy for power and money.

        Hell, we’ve had to create decentralized tools just to get some of our agency back. And yet, even knowing that their data is fodder for those same bad actors, people still flock to those previous systems like Facebook, TikTok, Xitter, and Instagram.

        Social media isn’t a mistake because social media is inherently bad. It’s a mistake, because humans in general are too stupid to protect themselves.