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2006: "You" is Time Person of the Year
2015-2024: OH MY GOD SOCIAL MEDIA IS BAD FOR DEMOCRACY AND WE NEED TO BAN IT FOR CHILDREN AND MISINFORMATION AND PORNOGRAPHY AND HATE SPEECH AND FASCISM AND ("(&)§$()"§&(&$(")§&$
I was a preteen in 2006 and still hold the optimist views about technology and its democratization that so many people held in 2006, but it seems I'm nearly the only one who even remembers them.
You're not the only one! I think it's worth noting that back then, "social media" was a new model in which the viewers provided the content, a democratizing force which broke the hold of a small priesthood of editors, producers, and owners over the message we hear.
Now, so-called social media is synonymous with The Algorithm. That is, the powerful and connected have figured out how to tame it and gatekeep information again, this time in a far more insidious way. It still has the veneer of populism, but scratch the surface, and the owners largely control what you see.
It's darkly hilarious to read discussions on here in which people deny that Lemmy is social media at all, rather than an example of the ur-social media, the good kind.
Yeah, not going to defend "algorithms".
I wonder how we managed on web forums where the entire "algorithm" was... thread bumping, and that's it.