• @Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    root cause solution: outlaw advertising

    advertising is what makes social media bad, because it creates an incentive system such that more traffic = more profits, and so companies are incentivised to create conflict (radicalise people) so they stay on the site more

    • @yeahiknow3
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      3 days ago

      Jordan Peterson was making 50k a month on Patreon when he flipped his shit in 2016. His videos were unmonetized. Similarly, creators are very vulnerable to audience capture.

      If we get rid of advertising on YouTube they’d adopt a subscription model which would suffer the exact same fate.

      I’m telling you, easiest thing is to keep kids out. There’s just no reason for kids to be on Instagram and for foreign agitators to be using social media pretending to be Americans.