binji 🔴
@binji.eth
One’s level of apathy or radicalism is closely correlated to their screen time. The impact of this has hit Gen Z pretty harshly. I see it everywhere, in all professions, in all countries, across all political spectrums. This is why we need decentralized social media, as it is our chance to rid the world of the inevitable downwards social spiral led by misaligned incentives of web two business models. We are what we pay attention to, and right now, attention is being consumed by an onslaught of addictive, polarizing content that pushes the youth towards either radicalization or complete indifference. Ironically, this is primarily to keep us engaged long enough to watch more ads about mental health (e.g better help ads are very common). The old model isn’t just unsustainable; it’s dangerous. We need a more human internet, and we need it now.
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Penguin
@sleepypenguin.eth
I remember our convo last last season was similar to this. I also don't get this one much. What do you mean by a human internet? Like a human-centered one? If it is not human-centered now, what is it?
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Mads Christensen
@remsee
Not to be that guy but there were radicals in the 1930’s and 40’s that had zero screen time
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callum
@csmit
Social media alignment has been (particularly) in decline ever since tik tok popularised the infinite video scroll thing imo
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Sophia
@sophia123
Very good ideas, creating practical projects for the community and people to avoid being influenced by certain ideals that affect social development and the we3 community. Make our next generation pay more attention to onchain and we3
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Jinan
@jinan
WOW, this is a wake-up call to revolutionize the internet!
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Matthew Rader
@matthewrader
Serious question that I've been struggling with... What is it with a decentralized social media that would inherently make things any different? It feels different but I wonder if things would just return to the mean once all the normies use it.
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