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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Meta’s brave new horizons

I don't disagree with any of that.

veen's minidoc was interesting and worth the watch. It (briefly, tangentially) touched on the following points:

- a great deal of the space is given over to pr0n, which is awkward and weird, but

- a great deal of the space is populated by neurodivergents, who mostly rawk anime avatars because

- the tools to build a decent avatar come from the hikikikomori waifu crew, who colonized en masse and set the tone for the place

- which is mostly in the hidden corners where the looky-loos don't know to stare

That there is the recipe for a thriving counterculture. It's a freak-flag-flyin' festival, which the world needs more of. Such spaces, however, are notoriously difficult to monetize and the minute someone does, someone else will attempt to litigate their monetization away. There's also the very real problem of children in spaces they don't belong, or people doing things that shouldn't share space with children.

Facebook, borne of Harvard's undergraduate social scene, is never going to make room for anything even vaguely countercultural. And yes, absolutely: Facebook has not is not was not never will be the primary screen in a multi-screen strategy.