@p@fsebugoutzone.orgif you look, all of the "social media" companies have DoD tiesi think i first learned about this when I was in middle or high school, and it was fascinating to me. it's such a history hidden in plain site, and the published memoirs are fascinating. and it can't be understated how interesting that it extends to almost every single social media platform they are using as well. it makes me think of a lot of enterprise business hidden behind the veneers of the public offerings, how much of facebook's apparatus dedicated to not just fbi compliance, but like legal and financial compliance for third world shitholes? how much of it was dedicated to bribing those officials? it is not out of the question that they might have had personal corporate entourages, and things like that fascinates me.So I view it as the embers being stoked rather than dying outi'm confused how you can take this view immediately after describing an entire natural flourishing of social media formats being co-opted and whitewashed by political machinations. embers needing to be stoked implies that they are dying out, and stoking implies that new material is added, i am pretty sure this is not the case, except maybe idk, vine and tiktok. tiktok is just a happenstance chinese copy of vine which was snuffed out before it could even really hit escape velocity. i'm not even sure we will even get another geniuinely inspired social media format, the latest batch (threads, periscope, etc) has been completely co-opted and guaranteed their failures from the start. all new potential social media will be regressive unless the entire apparatus reverses, which is guaranteed not to happen. that is not to say there will never be new value provided by innovative new social media sites like farcaster or something (if it even counts lmfao), but by definition of always remaining fringe from now on, is categorically regressive.These are the things people concerned themselves with before everyone got extremely literal-minded, intolerant of ambiguity, and also grandiosei'm not sure i share this perspective, i think they moved on from places that you could bring yourself to look. the youths are still alive and well in their tiktok microcommunities, twitter niches, and discord servers. but they suck to be in and you are completely justified to disregard these. however, they still exist.I view boomers as the aberrant form and I think culture is healingmost definitely. however, my awareness of even my own generation is greatly distorted because i am not very aware of the undercurrent of my generation that has degraded to neetdom in their parents houses, and whatnot. i hear about them a lot through secondhand circumstances though. i just never come into contact with them for some reason (i know the reason).they didn't really pass it downbut this is the point, they wouldn't need to pass it down if the flame was still present, i think is my proposal