we should separate “social media” from “attention media”

That would be the dream for sure.

What we really need is an alternative to the the original functionality of Facebook.

Staying connected with real life friends, family, and acquaintances.

Social event planning, sharing life photos, sharing life updates, hell even marketplace.

All the federated “alternatives” are basically twitter clones, which really is a very different thing at its core. I do not want to share family photos and life updates with the whole fucking planet. Just the 500ish people I “know” in real life. I also don’t want to see tweet like mastodon posts in my friend feed. Its a different thing.

I know friendica is supposed to be that, but in my experience, its slow as hell, and just feels like a weird overlay on mastodon.

“By utilizing state of the art decentralized cryptographic data science, we can bypass bottlenecks in the natural resource supply chain. Nonfungible tokenized oil coins can break developing economies free from bad actors in the free market.” - Some douchebag right now probably.

I’m a straight guy who despises football. Even the sports I have a mild interest in watching, I have little to no emotional investment in.

My brother however is so emotionally invested in football that he yells, and throws stuff when watching it. After his college team lost a championship last year he needed a week to “emotionally recover.”

It has never made any sense to me until reading your comment. I have never seen him cry over football. But he sure lets out a lot of emotions when watching it.

The reality is none of this insanity has directly effected me. So day to day life, working, raising kids, etc. is completely normal for me. However, keeping up with news. Feeling empathy for people being effected now, and worrying about when the other shoe is going to drop on me and my family stresses me out. I don’t like being stressed out and avoid stress as much as possible, so I find myself just trying to stay distracted with hobbies, video games, etc. Then I feel guilty about distracting myself. If I can’t do much about the situation, I should at least inform myself about it. But then there comes the stress again…

So yeah, in a way add me to the crashing out list I guess.

The alternate reality where he ended up being a cop instead of a journalist.

More treble gives me a fucking headache.

I think its a better than nothing kind of option for some families living in remote places or living very itinerant lifestyles

But in general, I think its just a way to for parents to keep their kids as indoctrinated into their fucked up beliefs as they can.

Also, growing up I knew many homeschooled kids through boyscouts, and they were almost always socially stunted, and often intellectually behind because their parents were barely teaching them anything.

This is the guy who is kinda responsible for ziz and the zizians right? Game theory BS that devolved into a murderous cult?