Yes, my feeling when reading this was that in the “good old days” we had a heterogeneous, distributed, self-organising network of people doing and making things they like, others discovering, reading and sharing it, and communities and services forming to facilitate this.
Then Facebook, Twitter, etc. gobbled up all of this into their giant silos, all in the name of ‘user engagement’, ‘content consumption’, etc. and this is bad.
Yet, the author then goes on about which of these silos give their blog posts the most ‘engagement’, or how to format posts for the highest ‘consumption’, etc. which sounds exactly like the ‘attention hijacking’ BS which lead to those silos.
If it’s too much work, don’t do it? Left unanswered is why it’s necessary to post links to your blog on every site imaginable.
Yes, my feeling when reading this was that in the “good old days” we had a heterogeneous, distributed, self-organising network of people doing and making things they like, others discovering, reading and sharing it, and communities and services forming to facilitate this.
Then Facebook, Twitter, etc. gobbled up all of this into their giant silos, all in the name of ‘user engagement’, ‘content consumption’, etc. and this is bad.
Yet, the author then goes on about which of these silos give their blog posts the most ‘engagement’, or how to format posts for the highest ‘consumption’, etc. which sounds exactly like the ‘attention hijacking’ BS which lead to those silos.
What does the green icon that contains three white bars of decreasing length represent?
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