man the metalk about maybe not letting metafilter just be links to facebook or bird site is predictably a total train wreck


i will never stop having my mind blown over how many people see these insanely toxic platforms as somehow essential for life on this planet while brushing away that their complicity is the only medium that these platforms have to carry out all the evil shit that they do

like i get that there are complex sociological systems that are at play with underserved populations and that it is possible to identify specific examples of "good things" within these platforms, but literally all of the activity on the platform, good or bad, is exactly what these companies need to keep carrying out reprehensible bullshit

they don't care about anything besides user count and engagement metrics - if all the users are fascists, and the engagement is fascists doing a genocide, then that's just fine because those are countable users producing engagement activity which they can leverage to do more business

which like, that's just how their business works, and there's zero incentive externally (because government doesn't care and their users won't leave) or internally (they don't make more money by reducing audience size) so this won't be changing anytime soon

like everyone learned that facebook was OK with doing a genocide in 2018 and somehow that wasn't a terrible enough thing for a company to do that would cause users to leave, and it turns out facebook was right because two years later those users are still there - and even better yet - they are so happy they actively help defend the company from anything that would hurt it in the smallest of ways

but whatever, this isn't like surprising since you can draw parallels to whatever other broken exploitative capitalist system we have in the US, that's just our culture here and it's absolutely maddening

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