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1. Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jun-2018 15:42:07 EDT Tsundoku Psychohazard

   Against Facebook https://0xadada.pub/2018/05/01/against-facebook/

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jun-2018 16:43:31 EDT Strypey

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      @enkiv2 this essay attempts to apply 'Society of the Spectacle' analysis to social media, which is a good thing to do. The problem is that it's proposed solutions are as impractical as telling people not to use the net at all (I tried this for a year - book forthcoming). Which is like proposing living in the woods as a solution to the environmental crisis. Running away from pollution doesn't stop it chasing you, and the same is true of the Spectacle.

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jun-2018 16:48:16 EDT Strypey

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         @enkiv2 my family and most of my friends are on the other side of the world. Unless I want to spend a fortune on postage, toll calls, and flghts, the only way to spend more time with them is via the net. True, I don't have to use FB for that, and I don't. But what to us? I suspect talking about potential replacements that are fundamentally different from FB (non-profit/ cooperative, #FreeCode / #OpenSource etc) would make the essay more useful to most people.