All i say about this video is “I want to think for myself and I think you should too.”
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I can’t reasonably comment on this video because I haven’t watched it, and I’m not going to spend 37 minutes watching a video that should have been a blog post.
If I’m going to spend that long watching some dude talk, there’d better be cats involved. Preferably big, shaggy cats.
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love technology connections! i like how he addressed using this platform for this “opinion piece” (as he called it). this video having 2M views is heartening!
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I watched this not too long ago; Technology Connections is a great channel and I always enjoy the videos he puts up. Well worth the watch!
And I think he makes a good point, but I’m not sure if I agree. It’s always difficult to predict a trend when we’re in the middle of it, and it may be that we’re simply shifting the way we collect information rather than “getting dumber”. In my experience, the types of people who aren’t inclined to go looking for the info they need didn’t do that anyway before search engines became ubiquitous, so the algorithms haven’t changed anything except made them more pathetic than they already were. But maybe I run in different circles; I don’t know.
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good video! I’m not gonna lie I still don’t feel much for Bluesky. Feels like its not different enough from Twitter to spend time on. But I haven’t seen it much so its probs just my own preference.
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I’ve been on Bluesky, and it isn’t all that much different from Twitter. Still a lot of noise and groupthink, just not quite as many Nazis. They haven’t booted trans-bashers like Jesse Singal, yet (and probably won’t). For all of Jay Graber’s talk of a world without Caesars, they’re still funded by venture capital so they’re going to end up doing a lot of the same shit that other social platforms do in order to cover payroll.
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yeah, feel like its an inevitable loop for a sm of that style. do you use it often?
Not at all. I put up with it for about a month before nuking my account. There’s nothing and nobody there that matters to me.
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that makes sense, I stuck around about as long on twitter years and years ago haha
I survived on Twitter longer, back in 2013-2014. I had just published a novel through a small press, and their marketing people insisted that I be on Twitter and Facebook as well as Google+. It was a miserable experience.
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I think I was there around 2017ish, trying to also do smth to promote my art. It was depressing lol
On the topic, I kinda agree with this author
In the argument that algorithms themselves aren’t inherently bad. Algorithms designed to maximize engagement / profit are the problem.
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