• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Dude could have just been successful letting Facebook be a tool to keep in touch with friends and family. Instead he has all these weird, unnecessary ideas about how to manipulate and spy on people.

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      Thing is, it’s not the dude. It’s the system that forces most dudes to keep coming up with new ways to make ever higher profit. If they don’t, they open the door to competition that would. Then their competitor could eventually overtake them, take their customers and profits, then do a hostile or peaceful purchase of the dude’s firm.

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    1. The system makes people poorer in money and time, and social ability
    2. People can’t afford to make and keep as many friends
    3. The system gives people artificial friends that cost less

    1. The system uses people’s artificial friends to reinforce itself
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    F me…

    Does no one see the propaganda potential for this? Yeah, let’s give one guy more intimate, influential control over the psyche of hundreds of millions.

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      I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.

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    3 months ago

    When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.

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    online human friends still can’t compete with seeing them in person … wtf a chatbot gonna do to fix this?

    Not saying we shouldn’t talk to friends online and stuff it’s just that real humans are having difficulties filling these gaps.

    Also, why the fuck would I want a friend like that’ll snitch me out and be used to sell me shit? I swear, he wants us hooked on these things and be like, “Subscribe now or your friends will be shut off forever!”

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    That’s just cause he has no friends, so he assumes you don’t either.

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    We can put our spy specs on and update our spy site profile on our spy device and if there is anything left that is just ours we can now tell it to our spy friend.

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    Who needs friends when we have each other, amirite? Right guys? …guys?

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    he’s right. I don’t have any friends.

    because I refuse to use his shitty platform and every human I have came in contact with for my entire life is so hollow and selfish they can’t interact with a human being without some form of technology.

    so I come on lemmy and harass fascist supporting scum as a hobby.