[HN Gopher] Attention Media [?] Social Media
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       Attention Media [?] Social Media
        
       Author : susam
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2026-02-08 17:24 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | direwolf20 wrote:
       | Social networks [?] social media
        
       | funkyfiddler369 wrote:
       | > The notification system stopped serving me and started serving
       | itself.
       | 
       | Itself meaning the company, meaning their sharehodlers, meaning
       | whatever massive circle jerk eats all that data and then shits
       | boatloads of bullshit straight into user brains, the developing
       | teen ones being the main target.
       | 
       | An infinitely growing population and economy require distributing
       | as much productive, constructive, inspiring and stimulating
       | output as precisely as possible or huge amounts of capital get
       | lost. As insanely sad as it is, the big guys don't care about
       | that because they are not capitalists. After decades I'm not even
       | sure anymore "capitalists" and "capitalism" even exist. I
       | actually think it's just another Utopia.
       | 
       | I have come to understand that our economic, social and political
       | leaders never got the right input themselves and neither did the
       | techies, although engineers somehow get that stuff intuitively or
       | at least "on first look".
       | 
       | Notification systems are an ugly analogy to what goes wrong when
       | you do things out of the wrong, the "Facebook kind" of
       | motivation.
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       | > Using these services began to feel like standing in front of a
       | blaring loudspeaker, broadcasting fragments of conversations from
       | all over the world directly in my face.
       | 
       | Exactly.
       | 
       | On the one hand, you can't reduce the signal-to-noise ratio
       | without throwing it all at your users--or consumers in general--
       | and letting them teach you what is worth it and what isn't, but
       | on the other hand: YOU ARE A BILLION DOLLAR HEAVY COMPANY AND
       | PART OF A MULTIMULTI-BILLION DOLLAR HEAVY NETWORK OF CORPORATIONS
       | and you share all that data anyway and then use it for, against,
       | by and off the people and for profit mostly.
       | 
       | Your employees studied and learned for at least a decade, which
       | means that whatever you intended, had pretty much ZERO unintended
       | side effects, which means you actually wanted to tire out users
       | and consumers and one of your goals or your sharehodlers goals
       | was an effective war of attrition against the good people of
       | whatever nation.
       | 
       | The resulting brain fog, confusion, twitchyness, over-stimulation
       | and/or reduced ability to distinguish signal from noise and/or
       | the "who cares", "new times, man, nothing is important, ALL HAIL
       | ALL THAT NOTHING THAT IS NOT IMPORTANT" and/or the exorbitant
       | increase of stress hormone levels somehow served what exactly?
       | 
       | [I got a bit lost in the end ... I hope it serves it's purpose]
        
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