Yeah sorry I thought it was cool tech but you are right when I read it again.

I think most people agree but when we slip into trashing social media as a concept and lose the nuance I get concerned.

Social media is a terrible for us. Me included. It’s addictive - that’s why I’m here.

If that is how you feel I encourage you to start from a position of curiosity about what draws you here beyond a simple thought terminating comparison to an addictive physical substance or our sex drive.

If you think we have 40 years before general collapse you are in for an enormous amount of unprocessed heartbreak.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.

This is precisely what is supercharging this moral panic, people don’t automatically think critically about this and will bandwagon on social media = bad because it feels righteous and is easy unless WE force a more nuanced conversation.

You are bad at arguments.

The lemmy.world mods were totally happily stomping on the narrative that Biden was directly enabling the Palestinian Genocide. It took until Trump was elected for them to start quietly backing off from an enforced naivete they were previously happy to maintain a “blue maga” response to where any criticism of Biden meant you were a Russian bot or something.

If Biden was elected again we would still be fighting this battle against empty neoliberal centrists dismissing evidence of the genocide as a distraction/character assassination done to benefit Republicans.

No, when you just say social media = bad you feed into the moral panic with your intellectual laziness.

Try harder with formulating your arguments please.

:)

Ok so sounds like the problem isn’t actually social media then?

Rather it is a question of the choices we make about the architecture and design of social media.

No, not in any meaningful way given how rigged and broken the economy is for the average person.

Why are you here then?

Past a certain point believing you can beat a horrendously rigged game designed to be as cruel as possible just blinds you to a starker reality, it is neither helpful for inducing positive systematic reform nor helpful for understanding yourself and your piled up failures in a loving light.

I am sorry I triggered you.

You can invest in international markets if you think the US market is doomed.

With what money?

In the US economically the rich here will not allow the poor to have the breathing room to save, they can’t or else the system of extraction here loses its essential domineering grip.

The idea that you can’t save because it’s collapsing is just doubling down on sinking with the ship.

What a stupid, dismissive thing to say.

If you can save and get out, good for you.

The vast majority in the US cannot save and I genuinely think trying to is futile, collapse is roaring towards us and given the acceleration of climate change over the last 10 years there isn’t even enough quality lifespan left for many to make saving a rational pursuit in the first place given the extreme poverty trap that the US functions as.

If we have no agency over our lives ending prematurely, the idea of us all transcending this fate through individualized saving is worse than useless.

The NYT is a honeytrap for liberals who can’t admit they are conservatives that feeds its victims whatever narrative the 1% desire, which in this case is sweeping the Epstein files underneath the rug and desperately ignoring the massive role of Israel in this.

Life is a Crudite and we are merely sliced vegetables to be browsed over distractedly by the ultrawealthy.

I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.