Buonasera, grazie per la segnalazione! don Luca Peyron <dluca.universitari@gmail.com> writes:
The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.
Buona lettura
dl
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-...
Io sinceramente non ho capito proprio nulla del _perché_ /prima/ sarebbe stata così divertente e /ora/ non lo è più; ho solo capito che: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] Users who pay for Elon Musk’s blue-check verification system now dominate the platform, often with far-right-wing commentary and outright disinformation; Musk rewards these users monetarily based on the engagement that their posts drive, regardless of their veracity. The decay of the system is apparent in the spread of fake news and mislabelled videos related to Hamas’s attack on Israel. Elsewhere online, things are similarly bleak. Instagram’s feed pushes months-old posts and product ads instead of photos from friends. Google search is cluttered with junky results, and S.E.O. hackers have ruined the trick of adding “Reddit” to searches to find human-generated answers. Meanwhile, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, in its latest bid for relevance, is reportedly developing artificial-intelligence chatbots with various “sassy” personalities that will be added to its apps [...] The precipitous decline of X is the bellwether for a new era of the Internet that simply feels less fun than it used to be. [...] When those platforms decay, as Twitter has under Elon Musk, there is no other comparable platform in the ecosystem to replace them. [...] Musk recently tweeted that the company’s algorithm “tries to optimize time spent on X” by, say, boosting reply chains and downplaying links that might send people away from the platform. The new paradigm benefits tech-industry “thread guys,” [...] The Internet today feels emptier, like an echoing hallway, even as it is filled with more content than ever. [...] Twitter in its heyday was a source of real-time information, the first place to catch wind of developments that only later were reported in the press. [...] part of the problem is that social media is more hierarchical than it used to be. [...] Choire Sicha, the co-founder of the Awl and now an editor at New York, told me that he traces the seeds of social media’s degradation back a decade. “If I had a time machine I’d go back and assassinate 2014,” he said. That was the year of viral phenomena such as Gamergate, when a digital mob of disaffected video-game fans targeted journalists and game developers on social media --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Eh già: si stava meglio quando si stava peggio! Siamo finalmente entrati nell'era dei nostalgici dell'"Internet di una volta", ora le cose si fanno davvero interessanti. «Hanno ucciso l'Uomo Ragno Chi sia stato non si sa Forse quelli della mala, forse la pubblicità Hanno ucciso l'Uomo Ragno Non si sa neanche il perché Avrà fatto qualche sgarro a qualche industria di caffè» Saluti, 380° P.S.: non un minimo cenno alle /centrali/ della disinformazione on e offline, ECHELON, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Aaron Swartz... superficialità o propaganda? -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.