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   Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 01:44:11 JST Justin Pot

   Meta is actively developing what they claim is world-changing technology and this is their best idea for how to use it: making bot accounts on their own social network in an effort to get you to scroll just a little bit longer. https://justinpot.com/the-future-of-mindless-scrolling/

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 01:44:20 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Medea Vanamonde

     @MedeaVanamonde @jhpot

     You'll never know if the random person who posted "ha! :)" in response to what you thought was a funny post was a real person or not.

     You may spend an hour bickering with someone trying to teach them something, but it's not someone, just text targeted to keep you "engaged"

     I can't imagine anyone really wants this, right? This sounds like madness to me. A bad dystopia. A nightmare.

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     Medea Vanamonde (medeavanamonde@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 01:44:22 JST Medea Vanamonde

     in reply to

     • myrmepropagandist

     @jhpot @futurebird
     Nexus Tormentus

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:07:18 JST mark

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     @jhpot so many social media sites become nothing but ai bots talking to each other if you scroll down into the conversations. Meta is just moving the dreck to the top of the feed.

     I will never understand the refusal for them to make it harder to keep up with people you know. Maybe this one is opinion engineering on steroids