alt Hacker NewsYeah it’s a tough situation to figure out.
But here’s the real problem: people don’t care. And I say that as someone who hasn’t used social media since 2014.
My observation of people’s behavior indicates that when all is said and done, people don’t care—they would rather get the endorphins from posting, liking, following, etc.
But the solution is to allow people to control their own algorithm, and to have open source solutions where communities manage their own social network.
It’s not the algorithm that is the problem it is that people don’t have the choice to curate their own content.
People don’t care because the broader reality offers no alternative today.
We have failed at creating a society with hope for the future.
This is like prohibition talk. It was all the avoid the fact that America in that period was a social hellscape.