Comment by homefree
7 months ago
This is the correct model.
If you want your own home you can use something like Urbit.
Generally in the web as it is, we are all serfs on other people’s computers.
7 months ago
This is the correct model.
If you want your own home you can use something like Urbit.
Generally in the web as it is, we are all serfs on other people’s computers.
In my analogy, YouTube was the grocery store, not my home. I don't think of it as a place that I own, but a place that I go shopping for vegetables (educational long-form content). I already made the decision not to enter the candy store on the same block (TikTok), and while I accept that the grocery store sells candy too, I would find it intolerable for them to be following me around waving Oreos in my face as I browse the vegetable aisle, when I keep telling them I don't want Oreos because I'm on a diet. In fact they're the ones asking me if I want to see candy in the vegetable aisle and I keep telling them no.
I don't think it makes sense to say that they are forced by the market to do this to compete with the candy store, when they already know I don't want candy in the first place. Instead, this sort of annoying practice pushes me to leave and visit the organic market instead (Nebula).
I don't think "revealed preference" is the right explanation here either, because these kinds of settings preferences are tailored to an individual account, and I never click on Shorts and always select the "hide" dropdown, so the preference that I have revealed is one that is strongly disinterested in Shorts.
I think the correct explanation is that someone's KPI is attached to increasing Shorts viewership, and they're trying to earn their bonus, even if it's at a cost to the success of the organization as a whole.
They’re all fighting for the finite amount of attention - literally hours you are awake.
That’s a very competitive arena and while you and I may be health conscious - they’re fighting a trench war, you and I don’t matter.