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1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 04:25:26 EST Danyl Strype
   Can't help but think all this 'app addiction' discourse ignores the role capitalism plays in shaping tech http://humanetech.com/problem
   1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 04:26:52 EST Danyl Strype

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      I mean, nobody seems to be asking why tech started hijacking attention instead of serving users' real needs in he first place (clue: profit)
      1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 04:28:29 EST Danyl Strype

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         Could it be because selling users' attention to advertisers is (so far) the only way for venture capitalist to profit from network tech?
         1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 04:31:29 EST Danyl Strype

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            What if network platforms were developed by not-for-profts (eg Wikipedia, Mozilla) or coops owned by users/ workers (#OpenCooperativism)?
            1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 05:07:17 EST Danyl Strype

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               Experience from before and since VCs discovered the net/ web in the late 90s, suggests profit motivate creates very different design choices
         2. Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 04:59:48 EST Kevin Marks

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            @strypey particularly annoying that google switched mode from 'we do best when you spend least time on our site' to 'we track everywhere you go and ask you to upload photos of it'