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1. paulajohnson · 1790610990 · focus · HN ↗

   Tell me again about how we need to keep children off social media....

   1. nekusar · 1790612689 · focus · HN ↗

      The problem is for-profit corporate social media.

      Fediverse has never hired thousands of psychologists to gamify everything.

      Fediverse hasn't added adverts to sell really seedy or blatantly illegal products.

      Fediverse hasn't engaged in genocide in Myanmar or Rohinga, or anywhere else.

      Fediverse doesn't run mass psychology experiments on unsuspecting users.

      But Facebook/Meta, X, and others definitely have.

      Edit: for those of you who -1'ed it, where am I wrong?

      1. breezybottom · 1790643663 · focus · HN ↗

         You're wrong. The mental harm of social media has nothing to do with any of that.

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