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He talks about transitioning to paid social media to stop the bummer machine, but enshittification is always right around the corner. That wouldn't last even if it took off because businesses and investors are greedy. The platform would start to suck and then they would find some way to bring ads back. Just look at Netflix

The idea that tech forward hippies created the ad based online hellscape we exist in on the internet today in actually kind of crazy to think about. I like that they were trying to create free and accessible tech, but I bet they did not anticipate how it would turn out

such a short book and it’s taking me forever to get through

Already way better than the other anti social media book I was reading

Nunca me había detenido a pensar que una adicción impide el ejercicio de tu libre albedrío. Siempre lo he visto como un problema que te aísla o que te impide disfrutar de otras cosas, pero no directamente como un argumento en contra de la libertad. Y me parece una idea poderosa desde la que luchar contra una adicción.