#decentralise — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #decentralise, aggregated by home.social.
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“ #Socialmedia was supposed to democratise voice, and for a moment, at least, it did; then the #platforms discovered narcissism and outrage drive more #engagement, engagement tied to profiles creates psychographic models, and psychographics enables micro-targeted advertising, and optimised accordingly. What was ostensibly designed for community and connection became infrastructure for polarisation and manipulation.
The internet was supposed to #decentralise access to information. It briefly did, then consolidated into five companies that discovered that capturing people’s attention, then surveilling their behaviour, and selling that information to others equals virtually infinite money; and now those five companies have a combined market capitalisation larger than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China.”
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“ #Socialmedia was supposed to democratise voice, and for a moment, at least, it did; then the #platforms discovered narcissism and outrage drive more #engagement, engagement tied to profiles creates psychographic models, and psychographics enables micro-targeted advertising, and optimised accordingly. What was ostensibly designed for community and connection became infrastructure for polarisation and manipulation.
The internet was supposed to #decentralise access to information. It briefly did, then consolidated into five companies that discovered that capturing people’s attention, then surveilling their behaviour, and selling that information to others equals virtually infinite money; and now those five companies have a combined market capitalisation larger than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China.”
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“ #Socialmedia was supposed to democratise voice, and for a moment, at least, it did; then the #platforms discovered narcissism and outrage drive more #engagement, engagement tied to profiles creates psychographic models, and psychographics enables micro-targeted advertising, and optimised accordingly. What was ostensibly designed for community and connection became infrastructure for polarisation and manipulation.
The internet was supposed to #decentralise access to information. It briefly did, then consolidated into five companies that discovered that capturing people’s attention, then surveilling their behaviour, and selling that information to others equals virtually infinite money; and now those five companies have a combined market capitalisation larger than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China.”
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“ #Socialmedia was supposed to democratise voice, and for a moment, at least, it did; then the #platforms discovered narcissism and outrage drive more #engagement, engagement tied to profiles creates psychographic models, and psychographics enables micro-targeted advertising, and optimised accordingly. What was ostensibly designed for community and connection became infrastructure for polarisation and manipulation.
The internet was supposed to #decentralise access to information. It briefly did, then consolidated into five companies that discovered that capturing people’s attention, then surveilling their behaviour, and selling that information to others equals virtually infinite money; and now those five companies have a combined market capitalisation larger than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China.”
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“ #Socialmedia was supposed to democratise voice, and for a moment, at least, it did; then the #platforms discovered narcissism and outrage drive more #engagement, engagement tied to profiles creates psychographic models, and psychographics enables micro-targeted advertising, and optimised accordingly. What was ostensibly designed for community and connection became infrastructure for polarisation and manipulation.
The internet was supposed to #decentralise access to information. It briefly did, then consolidated into five companies that discovered that capturing people’s attention, then surveilling their behaviour, and selling that information to others equals virtually infinite money; and now those five companies have a combined market capitalisation larger than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China.”