I think the corporatization of the internet (marketed as Web 2.0) made making people addicted to platforms as the end goal. Best way to make people addicted to platforms is to piss them off, as Facebook showed with their psychological testing. Couple this with targeted advertisers being able to pay to promote their content over others, along with the fact that right wingers have more money to spend on this than left wingers (for obvious reasons), and it points to more authoritarian/fascist views becoming more prominent.
I think there’s hope with the fediverse, but I think it will take a lot of time to become more popular than the corporate internet. The corporate internet has been seen as the default for so many people for so long, so it will also take a lot of effort to kill it off.
I think the corporatization of the internet (marketed as Web 2.0) made making people addicted to platforms as the end goal. Best way to make people addicted to platforms is to piss them off, as Facebook showed with their psychological testing. Couple this with targeted advertisers being able to pay to promote their content over others, along with the fact that right wingers have more money to spend on this than left wingers (for obvious reasons), and it points to more authoritarian/fascist views becoming more prominent.
I think there’s hope with the fediverse, but I think it will take a lot of time to become more popular than the corporate internet. The corporate internet has been seen as the default for so many people for so long, so it will also take a lot of effort to kill it off.