🧵 Prediction: If it’s true he’s stepping down…this site is going to get worse, not better. The tendency of social media becoming social engineering rather than letting people express themselves and share news, creativity and crowd source together…will grow doe the worse here
I predict this because of the extensive disaster that FB became moving people into silos they didn’t want, using algorithms obsessively to make people basically see the same tiny sliver of content as if it knows better than the user; policing key words and content obsessively
Using FB is a demoralizing depressing experience. The user has less and less choice, increasingly told what they should read and see. And privacy a disaster. Twitter was always slightly better. Not perfect and it made mistakes and creates silos also; algorithms too but still
The tendency of social media to be less democratic, cater to authoritarian regimes and become in itself an authoritarian regime reducing creativity and democratic trends worldwide as authoritarian rise is scary. The public and users were left behind. And could get worse
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