I've been "joking" about this with my friends for a couple months now, and every day it becomes less and less of a joke--there are some very...interesting...things happening on the Twitter timeline these days.
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You setup contacts in the app and the contacts confirm they want to be involved. They receive a special link (or some other access method, I can't remember) and when you die, your contacts can say "(person) died, give me access to their information."
A confirmation is sent to the person that setup the account, they have a pre-determined amount of time to block the request. If the request is ignored the data is released to either some or all contacts. It's pretty slick but I would be terrified to start a business like that, with something like this you can't just let the business go under if things aren't going well.
tldr political systems in other countries are different
> Judges are not officials with a position and salary but arbitrators accepted by the disputants. A judge has no special rights,16 such as the right to summon or cross-examine a witness. Nor is the judge viewed as an authoritative source of law. His job is to settle conflicts by applying the rules that people in the community normally observe. A judge who produces verdicts that meet general disapproval is unlikely to be asked to judge cases in the future.
> Neither politicians nor religious dignitaries are responsible for developing or interpreting the general law, and, as a rule, neither can function in the law as judge, witness, or enforcer. Folk wisdom includes the sayings “One can change one’s religion; one cannot change the law” and “Between religion and tradition, choose tradition.”
It further goes into the intricacies of how conflicts are meant to be handled.
There are some good points in this piece but some of the conclusions seem like downstream impacts of reduced density and not inherent functions in the apps themselves. As an example: FB's recommendation system was probably great when a ton of people were visiting, checking into, and rating restaurants nearby. Less people, specifically young people as they mentioned, are contributing to that system which makes it worse.
This also seems like a natural outcome of FB's (well-meaning?) intention of making a business's main website their FB page; this makes small, less technical business owners happy, but end users not-so-happy when the hours, phone number, etc aren't updated. To say nothing of the many aforementioned people that deleted Facebook and can't properly review a menu or the restaurant's posts because they don't have the app and aren't signed in.
If you see a recent TikTok titled "top 3 places I'd recommend to someone visiting my city," you know those places are open + what the vibe is like + the type of people that go there.
What's funny is that Instagram and TikTok are similarly inauthentic, but TT (seems to be) more choose-y about which creators they'll show you. Further, sponsored ad regulations haven't caught up with TT in the same way as YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, secretly sponsored content is common but easy to spot. There are just as many influencers peddling ads on TikTok as Instagram. The positive user reaction is probably related to:
- format (you can only lie so much in a video)
- comments (if someone has their comments off you know something dramatic happened, also navigating comments on IG is a disaster)
- micro-influencer support
Restricting replies to mentioned users doesn't stop quote tweets, which doesn't stop your tweet from reaching even more annoying, more unrelated communities.