re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, I use it to keep in touch with far-flung family & friends and to post local events, gigs & sessions.

I also belong to some hobby & interest-related groups.

People who go overboard with political posts or Covid posts get blocked.

I don’t know. When their own employees quit because they say it is immoral to support an immoral corporation, that gives me pause.

From The Atlantic article linked above:

One argument goes something like this: Facebook’s algorithms aren’t magic, its ad targeting isn’t even that good, and most people aren’t that stupid.

All of this may be true, but that shouldn’t be reassuring. An algorithm may just be a big dumb means to an end, a clunky way of maneuvering a massive, dynamic network toward a desired outcome. But Facebook’s enormous size gives it tremendous, unstable power. Facebook takes whole populations of people, pushes them toward radicalism, and then steers the radicalized toward one another.