Paying attention. We cannot keep paying attention to content that outrages us and offers nothing in regards to solutions. It feels like most apps are full of carnival barkers that continue to get more and more extreme with time. I have been on Meta since 2011 and deleted my accounts. The fact that so many people feel trapped by these apps and dependent on them to conduct business or stay connected to their communities is a big problem to solve. I am thinking about creating a zine. What are some other solutions people see for decentralizing and being more mindful of the content they create?
attention economy
Has social media broken our brains?: Anxious generation
Molly Russell was fourteen. Her father opened her Instagram after she died and found thousands of posts about self-harm and suicide, escalating in graphic intensity, delivered by a recommendation engine that treated her darkening engagement as a signal to go darker....