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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean, the torment nexus is the torment nexus because the corpos did an unbelievable amount of data analytics to figure out how to precisely manipulate human emotions and brain chemistry.

Yes, we need to wrest control away from the digital drug dealers, but also, they are digital drug dealers, so you can actually do a good deal of that by detoxing, by quitting, going clean, destroying their market base, rewriting the cultural norms so that such activity is not celebrated, but viewed as shameful.

Detoxing from corpo social networks (or phrased differently: boycotting them) is at least an actionable thing that a person can do, and it will actually benefit them directly.

Of course, switching to non corpo social networks is also very important, but its probably still a good idea to have that detox period, to just, you know, renormalize, establish a new baseline, touch grass for a while.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've logged into my Facebook account out of sheer curiosity, and my god it's a wasteland. Ads, AI slop, hot takes from nobodies, the works. It is obviously designed to be as infuriating as possible, and qutting that digital landfill is the easiest thing ever.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago

I was one of the earliest adopters of Facebook, and also seemingly one of the earliest to bail out.

When the Cambridge Analytical scandal broke?

Nuked my entire account, at least, according to Facebook, who I'm totally sure doesn't just still have their own archive of me, because how the fuck would I know?

Basically everyone I knew thought I was literally insane for doing that at that time... I connected the dots and realized the true extent of what they could be, and we now know they were and are doing ... because I worked with databases and data analytics.

But nope, everyone thought I was nuts, and slept walked into the social apocalypse.

All you need to know about Facebook:

Zuck: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

Zuck: just ask

Zuck: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?

Zuck: people just submitted it

Zuck: i don’t know why

Zuck: they “trust me”

Zuck: dumb fucks

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

I only used it to check a local thing (they don't have a website, just a fb) and my account was banned "for lurking and inactivity" and when I found out it was 180 days since automated ban, so I can't request my account back. 180 days since they did it because they shut down for renovation for a little bit and then it was summer so they were inactive then too. They didn't get banned, so I think they may have proven that they do indeed exist and that they are indeed important to facebook. I'm not able to go as often due to account removal.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

i think oop wants to challange the underlying assumption that "digital" automatically means corporate social media and such.

There are large parts of the digital world that I would not describe as toxic that actually work for the people not against them.

Touching Grass is important but large parts of "real-life" are just as toxic. You can find a break from those in the good parts of digital life as well as by touching grass.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sure... but unless you're talking like, I2P decentralized alternative internet... or torrents...

... (almost) everything runs pretty much entirely on servers that are owned by a handful of megacorps.

Almost every physical part of the internet fundamentally is literally controlled by corpos, and they also govern almost all the software that is run on that physical stuff.

Yeah, it didn't used to be that way, so extensively and thoroughly, yeah, it doesn't have to be in the future... but like, how, what's the plan?

See how that compares to 'detox from toxic corpo social media' as... an actually actionable plan that produces results?

I dunno, I don't generally care for self expression for self expression's sake, in the form of saying things to a small audience that said small audience will just generally agree with, as compared to a potentially actionable plan to actually cause the change that is being prescribed by that statement.

There's expressing feelings, and there's "here's something you could maybe do to remedy the situation causing those feelings, to achieve the effect I desire".

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

countering almost all stuff online is corpo (except piracy)

internet archive? the millions of servers making up the fediverse? foss maintainers and organizations, wikipedia, etc. if you have a computer, you can make a webpage. yes, that old mac you played oregan trail on instead of doing your research could host a server. the internet is always 1 foss maintainer from collapsing and most servers are old laptops hosting a personal site nobody has visited before, and along with that, decentralized media and archives for said media. most web domains are not known because theres quite a few random kids (like me) who learn javascript, html, css, et cetera and make a personal site and host it hoping someone will visit, hoping someone will care, and most of them have 0 visits from anyone other than the creator. example.org is a real domain by the way.

your computer sometimes acts as a router, if someone near you is looking for a site, and their device and/or router can't find it, they'll look to nearby devices to see if they know where it is, so sometimes your device does that. if you have folding@home installed on any of your devices, your device will temporarily become a server as long as you have it running.

many small buisnesses and some schools have their own sites. those (usually) aren't owned by megacorp

sorry for the rant and have a great day (also sorry for bad grammar/spelling too tired to fix a the moment)

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

theres good and bad in both, and most of online sites are not toxic, but most of these nontoxic sites remain untouched and will for a while, and they are quite small. I've joined blips.club and spacehey and they are so refreshing and feel so nice. digital detoxxes can be good or bad, so can social media and it depends a lot on circumstance

[–] deadbeef79000 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

8 Nov 2021, 2:49 PM

For today's lucky 10,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

i am one of the 10 000, thank you for this info! have a great day! :D

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i never expected that there was a wikipedia page about this concept that just explains it in such a dry way

this feels like knowyourmeme but less ... sarcastic? idk. it feels weird

[–] Zink@programming.dev 22 points 7 months ago

We need both.

Technology is awesome and I have a tech job and a house full of computers and all that. But it's important that we don't fall into the trap of "if we just got rid of the capitalists, then we could be on our screens all day in peace and health."

If you cooperate with the primitive parts of your brain that evolved to take cues from the natural world, it can often improve things across the board.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 22 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Ah yes, because no-one got unhealthily addicted to IRC or BBS or SMS or whatever. Digital detox is more about taking time to be purposefully disconnected from current affairs and people you might be better off not interacting with.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

*looks at Fox News

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[–] Postimo@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Mfs will post this then get into a 3 hour debate on mastodon about the ethics of projecting yaio shipping culture on a race swapped hetero pair of platonic friends from an anime with 12 episodes.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey, don’t gatekeep, drop the link to the thread 😏

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I lol'ed. Danke.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, there are PLENTY of people who need to touch grass and go hang out in a social setting from time to time.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yea, but which social setting wants them?

the last 20 years were successful in removing any and all 3rd spaces

[–] nostrauxendar@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I agree, it's a tragedy that the internet and the majority of digital spaces have been captured and wrecked by monied interests.

I would argue that we all probably could do with "detoxing" from digital spaces, as well. Plenty of people seem to be way too into the internet.

[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Capitalism Detox

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 7 points 7 months ago

I disagree about digital detox, if you have an addictive personality the Internet is a drug.

The rest yeah fuck that shit coeperations raped the internet and left if to bleed out while they sell it's remaining body parts.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Here's an idea: email your friends more often. It's not a silver bullet but seriously, it's so much more pleasant to fire up Thunderbird than it is to deal with the FOMO of keeping up with Discord servers and group chats and Facebook and Insta and Snapchat and

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

... and risk accidentally sending a wrong attachment file that i should not have sent? and i can't delete images after i've sent them? no thanks.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

If that is a significant concern for you then no, you probably shouldn't use email. The other platforms are lying to you when they say that they can delete your photos off other people's computers though. Most of them are probably lying when they claim to delete files off their own servers.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I dunno dude. Sometimes building a home or on the woods, way out where no one could hear me play my instruments and get mad because I suck, that sounds kinda nice.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you accept all cookies?

For decades websites didn't need this ridiculous disclaimer and then all the sudden it's become absolute necessity.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Because they put them on your device silently, and then the EU stopped them from doing that?

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[–] 3x3@lemy.lol 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

+100 updoots and no comment??

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

people are often shy to make the first comment i think :D

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