Facebook is too successful. They are so successful that they are mainly focused on implementing features to remove users, rather than to add them.
Also, the 2016 election broke big tech a little, but covid turned big tech into China, at least when it comes to that issue. It's as if anti-covid lockdown activism was the west's June 6th tinnamen square remembrance movement. It also broke google in much the same way. I have to use Yandex or at least duckduckgo when searching for information about any controversial topic now. To even hear what the anti-lockdown crowd has to say I have to go to obscure telegram channels.
Facebook isn't the worst offender even. I recently tried to have a political discussion on nextdoor and me and a couple of other people just gave up because all our comments kept getting deleted. This is what I call "The lost doggy and kitty internet".
On "The lost doggy and kitty Internet" only the most light topics can be discussed. Only yoga classes and lost kitty notices are allowed. On the lost doggy and kitty internet there is a polite dinner party taking place, with a slaughterbot drone hovering overhead, buzzing around between partygoers listening everywhere intently for wrong think with a hair trigger fire button ready to go if any section of the crowd starts hurting people's brains...
Also, the 2016 election broke big tech a little, but covid turned big tech into China, at least when it comes to that issue. It's as if anti-covid lockdown activism was the west's June 6th tinnamen square remembrance movement. It also broke google in much the same way. I have to use Yandex or at least duckduckgo when searching for information about any controversial topic now. To even hear what the anti-lockdown crowd has to say I have to go to obscure telegram channels.
Facebook isn't the worst offender even. I recently tried to have a political discussion on nextdoor and me and a couple of other people just gave up because all our comments kept getting deleted. This is what I call "The lost doggy and kitty internet".
On "The lost doggy and kitty Internet" only the most light topics can be discussed. Only yoga classes and lost kitty notices are allowed. On the lost doggy and kitty internet there is a polite dinner party taking place, with a slaughterbot drone hovering overhead, buzzing around between partygoers listening everywhere intently for wrong think with a hair trigger fire button ready to go if any section of the crowd starts hurting people's brains...