<story><title>The People Deliberately Killing Facebook</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>milderworkacc</author><text>Not sure where to start with this one.&lt;p&gt;Can anybody briefly explain what a “rot economist” is? Is it meant to be capitalised “ROT economist” which stands for something? Has my browser not rendered the characters correctly or something?&lt;p&gt;This story of course includes the now almost mandatory attack on e2e encryption, which according to this account when coupled with the people you know feature is “a dangerous tool” - with little explanation as to the nature and size of the danger.&lt;p&gt;This part is interesting: “Worse still, accounts that were less than 15-days-old now made up 20 percent of all outgoing friend requests, and more than half of friend requests were sent by somebody who was making more than 50 of them a day…”&lt;p&gt;The explanation leaves a lot to be desired though:&lt;p&gt;“…heavily suggesting that Facebook was growing its platform’s “connections” through spam.”&lt;p&gt;Doesn’t this make perfect sense where a new user joins Facebook with no friends to start with, then in the first few weeks of using it finds all of their friends and adds them?&lt;p&gt;The whole thing reads like a grab bag of grievances rather than a forensic takedown, shame.</text></comment>
<story><title>The People Deliberately Killing Facebook</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>Companies make profits because people spend their money on what those companies have to offer.&lt;p&gt;Facebook offers a dopamine hit. And so does X and TikTok. To some extent also HN.&lt;p&gt;The infinite scroll slot machine.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, we are an evolved version of dopamine driven apes.&lt;p&gt;Meta family of Apps (Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram) has total WAU of 3.05 billion. Almost half the planet.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;Sam Altman, Sundar Picchai, Mark Zuckerberg saying that AI will somehow cure cancer and solve climate change seems pretty far fetched.&lt;p&gt;The closer reality is that as the AI models advance, they will figure out ever better ways of making their apps as addictive as cocaine.</text></comment>