Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

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Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
catvalente.substack.com

Everyone needs to read this.

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I thought this was just going to be 'The Enshiftification of TikTok' again but it became so much more (and as an added bonus was made 1 month before that article.)
fuck all these people

Doctorow links to Valente’s essay in that article! 👍

Oh, you're right! Forgive me for not bothering to look at every single link though when the first one was a wikipedia article to 'jedi blue' haha