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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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Maybe because it's not your job to write comments that reach the most amount of people?
I'm so confused about this "blame the individual" thing around social media platforms Monopoly on user capture.
There is a reason Monopolies have to be torn apart by governments. You don't just organically have individuals fix that by leaving the public square. You remove the censorship and capitalist dictatorship that is controlling what is seen in the public square.
You have the luxury of leaving them. It's not your job to reach out to the most amount of people with your messages.
that only addresses the people that have to stay due to their livelihoods; which are in the minority.
the VAST majority don't have to be on those platforms, but chose to be nonetheless. doing so makes them more susceptible to manipulation of monopolies and propaganda; they're self re-enforcing their own doom scrolling
yeah i get that, but i still get frustrated seeing so many frenz and fam doom scrolling those shitty apps.
i also don’t have to get the eyeballs for my job so was able to leave without consequence, and i realize that’s a great privilege. but it’s hard to watch others willingly, just out of habit, feed these shit machines with eyes and data.