Let’s just choose to not have social media — let’s consciously delete it as a society.

Just because we experiment with a technology doesn’t mean we can’t change our minds.

At the very least, we can have completely decentralized systems that don’t have an Elon or a Zuck running them and enshitifying them.

We have eliminated this possibility from our thinking, as if it’s inevitable we have to go in this direction and if only we could figure out the “right way” the technology wouldn’t be used for casual enslavement if populations and exploitation of social phenomenon for centralized control.

There is no good model for social media at this time, but we sure have been able to find some downsides.

Social networks lead directly to opinion and societal conformity and will eventually be used for social control and credit systems. We should turn them off before they enshrine themselves in the center of daily life.

Mark my words. You merely have to look at the Eyghurs in China to see where this technology is going.