Meta's Threads wants to become a friendly place by downgrading news and politics

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by rntn • 3 years ago

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A single company controlling a large fraction of the world's communication with a heavily sanitized, vanilla feel and an algorithmic feed focus...

Meta's situation really feels like background lore in a cyberpunk story.

ChatGTP• 3 years ago

I thought the exact same thing. As a company they are juggling many, many balls.

housemusicfan• 3 years ago

With the heavy focus on product / brand promotion and celebrities, it feels more like that movie The Truman Show.

GravitasFailure• 3 years ago

I don't see those two ideas being contradictory. After all, what's more cyberpunk than a corporation adopting a child, locking him into a fake ("virtual" seems an appropriate word) reality, and monitoring his every move for their own purposes? The first act of The Matrix is pretty much a condensed Truman Show.

crtified• 3 years ago

Claiming friendliness on one hand while offering a completely closed platform with the other. Doomed to mediocrity and corporate games, just like the others.

TheCoelacanth• 3 years ago

Nice in theory, but "don't talk about politics" is itself a political statement.

whythre• 3 years ago

I talk about politics with people I trust. I do not talk about politics with people who I can’t have an earnest, good faith discussion with, because it will almost certainly be a titanic waste of time.

Pxtl• 3 years ago

Right? I know I'm tired of Twitter's "political discussions" being blue-checkmarks slinging the term "groomer" at everyone they disagree with.

Meta's Threads wants to become a friendly place by downgrading news and politics

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