The Fediverse and attention economy

Replied to Does the fediverse suffer from the same issues as centralized social media when it comes to mental health and the attention economy? – Simple Living – Fedia (fedia.io)

A lot of people feel drawn to simple living or digital minimalism because they feel a constant need to be connected and stay up to date, and feel less and less in control because of the attention economy and how algorithms are developed to maximize your attention. While the fediverse might not work in the same exploitative way…

Yes, it does. It will keep suffering from the same issues as long as it encourages microblogging, and there are public upvotes and likes, and you can post links on Lemmy with a single-sentence summary that people can react to without reading the link. The Fediverse social media is built on the exact same premises…

the best technology of the olympics isn’t high tech

Liked Maybe Not the Sports Technologies You Were Expecting by Audrey WattersAudrey Watters (Second Breakfast)

As a writer about and critic of education technology, I was often asked "what's your favorite piece of ed-tech" – some sort of "gotcha" question, I reckon, in which I was supposed to confess that, in fact, I hate everything. I'd answer "the window," which is, no doubt, some sort of "gotcha" response – even though, in truth, it is one of the most significant pieces of technology in a classroom and, no lies, truly one of my favorites. If you've ever taught or learned in a space without windows, yo

this mentions windows, a clean (enough) river, and no smart watches in triathlon.

Olympic hairstyles I liked

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