Open Risk @openrisk@mastodon.social
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@smallcirclesjust small circles ๐Ÿ•Š @strypey a big issue that affects more than social media is what I call the fungibility of the digital domain. Some aspects of life are captured in digital form better than others, but once they do, its all just zeros and one. This is an unprecedented commingling of functionalities and power that is also responsible for the gigantism of adtech. It will become terminal once also the "economic graph" (who pays what to whom) becomes part of it. Thats not yet a complete process.

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Open Risk @openrisk@mastodon.social
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@smallcirclesjust small circles ๐Ÿ•Š @strypey back to the more narrow "social media" issue, this perspective leads to asking how many functions are now all forced on the same social graph design: getting interest based information from specialized publisher "nodes" (journos, scientists, politicians, artists, etc. gossiping, cracking jokes, communicating and establishing relations with other "undifferentiated" nodes, being pushed ads by commercial nodes etc.

In real life these channels are all distinct

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