Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back

• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My peeve with the illustration there is that it shows the dark forest (adtech shit and bots) as separate from the cozy web (chat streams like discord, slack, whatsapp), because said streams are largely run by the dark forest.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a great analogy. And a fair point - it got burrowed, but it’s still there.

  At least when we deal with individuals using the platform. The platform is still listening to you, and sharing it with advertisers; that’s the whole model behind Meta (WhatsApp) and Snapchat. They’re still hearing you, and want to talk with you (shhh, I’ve heard you bought [product]? Here are some offers for even more [product]!), regardless of what you want.

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  • jherazob@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And that’s one of the many reasons why we want private communications, we want no creepy megacorp listening in

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