‘I blame Facebook’: Aaron Sorkin is writing a Social Network sequel for the post-Zuckerberg era

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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Let’s fucking go

  The Facebook Files made – and provided evidence for – multiple allegations, including that Facebook was well aware of how toxic Instagram was for many teen girls; that Facebook has a “secret elite” list of people for whom Facebook’s rules don’t apply; that Facebook knew its revised algorithm was fueling rage; and that Facebook didn’t do enough to stop anti-vax propaganda during Covid-19. Most damningly of all, The Facebook Files reported that all of these things were well known to senior executives, including Mark Zuckerberg.

  It’s clear which side Sorkin is taking. “I blame Facebook for January 6,” he said last year. “Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement … There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t. It’s just growth.”

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  • ryanee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @ryanee@anonsys.net also relevant a Meta whistleblower testifying in front of Congress

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement

    But at the same time in every case I described on Lemmy an experience not maximizing engagement by maximizing conflict, I was downvoted to hell’s basement. Despite two of three modern social media experience models being too aimed for that, that’d be Facebook-like and Reddit-like, excluding Twitter-like (which is unfortunately vulnerable to bots). I mean, there’s less conflict on fucking imageboards, those were at some point considered among most toxic places in the interwebs.

    (Something-something Usenet-like namespaces instead of existing communities tied to instances, something-something identities too not tied to instances and being cryptographic, something-something subjective moderation (subscribing to moderation authorities you choose, would feel similar to joining a group, one can even have in the UI a few combinations of the same namespace and a few different moderation authorities for it), something-something a bigger role of client-side moderation (ignoring in the UI those people you don’t like). Ideally what really gets removed and not propagated to anyone would be stuff like calls for mass murders, stolen credentials, gore, real rape and CP. The “posting to a namespace versus posting to an owned community” dichotomy is important. The latter causes a “capture the field” reaction from humans.)

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    • catty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …And under the current model, the egos of mods get crazy big as they see their community army grow bigger and they can shape it how they want, even stackoverflow suffered and developers left in droves long before LLM took its place.

      I do miss the original imageboards though that used sage and was a community driven effort into moderation.

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• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Post-Zuckerberg? I’m confused on the eras of Facebook I guess. He’s still CEO isn’t he? Wouldn’t that make the whole history of the company the Zuckerberg era?

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s probably referring to the era past when Zuckerberg was an up-and-coming CEO and was still doing a bunch of new things. Now we’re in an arrow where he’s an establishment tech CEO. The stuff he does now is less about innovation and more about driving blind profits.

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• ryanee@anonsys.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  @maam Friendica works well with Lemmy and PieFed too if anyone reading this post wondering

  replying from Friendica

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  • ryanee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    PieFed 👓

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  • ryanee@anonsys.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @maam @ryanee@hubzilla.am-networks.fr @ryanee @ryanee @ryanee @ryanee Mastodon emojis can also be seen from Friendica, so cool

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  • ryanee@anonsys.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @maam @ryanee @ryanee @ryanee 💬

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He should just adapt Careless People for film

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shame on them if they don’t highlight the fediverse.

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