I take my phone when going to the toilet and just scroll hackernews because it is easy to come here click a couple articles, read comments etc.
I would much rather search personal blogs of people to find really interesting and informative content but I just don’t have the will power and time to do it properly.
It is much easier to open hackernews, reddit, youtube or even worse, youtube shorts.
There is an obvious conflict of interest between social media and the consumer.
The platform sees the consumer as cattle, they just want the consumer to click/watch more ads, buy more stuff etc.
They measure success by engagement only.
For example if I want to learn some new thing, it would be nice to be able to tell youtube to occasionally recommend a certain kind of video relating to that thing. Instead of trying to “train the algorithm” by creating artificial engagement. This seems very backwards and practically not many people will have time for this kind of thing.
It could be better if every person had time and power to search the full web and find content that not only is reasonably fun to consume but also leaves a good taste after consuming.
If you're sitting for more than ~10 minutes you should really get up and try again later, anyway... unless you want hemorrhoids, which I promise you do not :)
I would much rather search personal blogs of people to find really interesting and informative content but I just don’t have the will power and time to do it properly.
It is much easier to open hackernews, reddit, youtube or even worse, youtube shorts.
There is an obvious conflict of interest between social media and the consumer.
The platform sees the consumer as cattle, they just want the consumer to click/watch more ads, buy more stuff etc.
They measure success by engagement only.
For example if I want to learn some new thing, it would be nice to be able to tell youtube to occasionally recommend a certain kind of video relating to that thing. Instead of trying to “train the algorithm” by creating artificial engagement. This seems very backwards and practically not many people will have time for this kind of thing.
It could be better if every person had time and power to search the full web and find content that not only is reasonably fun to consume but also leaves a good taste after consuming.