Hmm. I'm pretty skeptical that using an account from somewhere else to post on a media network will make any difference. It's basically "federated logins", as we call them In The Industry. What it really is, is a means for the two companies with that cross-compatibility to share information about you with each other. That is precisely why "Log In With Google" and "Log In With Facebook" were created by their respective companies. Their business model is observing you.
The suggestion I had above - about making internet hosts more liable for the content they host, scaling in proportion to popularity - would, I think, push in the right direction. It is a policy directly against the "growth at all costs" behavior that has created the current set of giants. It would force them to blow holes in their own market share in order to placate their userbase and even avoid legal trouble.
But that idea is pie-in-the-sky, like most sensible ideas, simply because these giants are already here, and already massive, and already flush with money. Any idea that takes root and starts to look appealing to congress could be tracked and targeted and then astroturfed over with lobbyists. When Facebook says "please regulate us", it is not an invitation, it is a mocking threat. It is the deranged murderer, begging their shackled victims to please stop them before they kill again, as they raise the hunting knife.
I think the solution is going to have to be more grassroots, and it's going to have to be built on deep, acrid cynicism for almost all online interaction, especially with strangers.
Well within my lifetime - probably within this decade - we are going to have another transition, almost as big as the smartphone, into the AR/VR world, and on the heels of that we are going to start seeing increasing numbers of AI entities insinuating themselves into the social milieu of regular people. It's not just going to be "gee whiz I couldn't tell that automated voice was a robot", like we're already doing. It's going to be, wander into a room filled with twenty "people", and only four of them will actually be people, and for a good while you won't be sure who is what.
This WILL arrive, and I hope that when it does, it creates such a sense of distrust inside us living people that we insist on meeting each other physically just to prove that we're real. And that will bottleneck and hamstring social media to some degree.
That countercurrent may just end up being a fart in a hurricane, though, as every single social interaction, from boarding a bus to hosting your fucking funeral, will take place in AR environments Sponsored By Meta™ and with special super-real birdsong and weeping crowd plugins provided by Twitter and Microsoft, respectively.
(And, once again, credit to William Gibson, for predicting all of this three decades ago.)
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Date: 2022-02-12 04:26 am (UTC)The suggestion I had above - about making internet hosts more liable for the content they host, scaling in proportion to popularity - would, I think, push in the right direction. It is a policy directly against the "growth at all costs" behavior that has created the current set of giants. It would force them to blow holes in their own market share in order to placate their userbase and even avoid legal trouble.
But that idea is pie-in-the-sky, like most sensible ideas, simply because these giants are already here, and already massive, and already flush with money. Any idea that takes root and starts to look appealing to congress could be tracked and targeted and then astroturfed over with lobbyists. When Facebook says "please regulate us", it is not an invitation, it is a mocking threat. It is the deranged murderer, begging their shackled victims to please stop them before they kill again, as they raise the hunting knife.
I think the solution is going to have to be more grassroots, and it's going to have to be built on deep, acrid cynicism for almost all online interaction, especially with strangers.
Well within my lifetime - probably within this decade - we are going to have another transition, almost as big as the smartphone, into the AR/VR world, and on the heels of that we are going to start seeing increasing numbers of AI entities insinuating themselves into the social milieu of regular people. It's not just going to be "gee whiz I couldn't tell that automated voice was a robot", like we're already doing. It's going to be, wander into a room filled with twenty "people", and only four of them will actually be people, and for a good while you won't be sure who is what.
This WILL arrive, and I hope that when it does, it creates such a sense of distrust inside us living people that we insist on meeting each other physically just to prove that we're real. And that will bottleneck and hamstring social media to some degree.
That countercurrent may just end up being a fart in a hurricane, though, as every single social interaction, from boarding a bus to hosting your fucking funeral, will take place in AR environments Sponsored By Meta™ and with special super-real birdsong and weeping crowd plugins provided by Twitter and Microsoft, respectively.
(And, once again, credit to William Gibson, for predicting all of this three decades ago.)