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Richard Moss MossRC
Just realised the most personally affronting, painful thing about the rise of big tech and its accompanying horrors has been the feeling that they stole the future. That technology and innovation used to be driven by engineers, creative marketers, and tinkerers with dreams of a better future for all, but now it seems wholly controlled by soulless MBAs whose vision is not better tools or a better world or cool new ideas but bigger profits, more efficient resource extraction, and endless growth.

That the future we were building has been snatched away and replaced by chatbots, compulsive gambling, and permanent surveillance.

DestructoDisk DestructoDisk@mastodon.social

@MossRC What can we do about it? Not only have they taken over, but we are also slowly being completely pushed out. Typical social media comment sections are filled with bots talking to each other. How do we have something of our own again? I would like to, but I can't imagine how we could keep them out. Anything that gets popular and used will be targeted and consumed by this seemingly unstoppable force. I think there is more than nostalgia at work when people miss the old days 😞

Richard Moss MossRC

@DestructoDisk We just have to keep building and running our own intentional spaces and enforcing the cultural values we want within them. Fedi networks, self/independently-hosted blogs/newsletters and forums, small web, and so on. Be the change we want to see, carve out our own island oases, and pray that it's enough.

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Lunar 🛸 ♾ lunarloony@dosgame.club

@MossRC It gets me that this stuff never improves, either. For example: I was on Airbnb yesterday. Last time I used it, the UX was already bad. They've redesigned since and somehow made it WORSE.
Everything just gets worse and it's because some middle manager wants to justify their job so they just redesign for no good reason

Richard Moss MossRC
@lunarloony Yep, I bet I could reel off a dozen examples exactly like that too. Long gone are the days of UI/UX based on scientific principles and user testing. Now everything must change every product cycle based on the whims of product managers.