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1. Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 13:26:27 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

   "this product lets you have fun, avoid work and receive love and attention."

   most humans:

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 13:27:02 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @thor "shutvup and show me the ads" more like
   • Coffee (coffee@berserker.town)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 23:18:06 UTC Coffee

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     @thor Plot twist: the product is money itself.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 23:21:04 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @thor User-generated content and anti-disintermediation is what the 2010s and Web 2.0 was all about. Let's make others create value and just insert ourselves between them.
     
     Wait, that's just capitalism.
   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 23:21:05 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke granted, the media did something *similar* but the whole element where the work of creating content in return for that...

     "can't we just make the users work for us?"

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 23:21:06 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke ingenious business model tbh

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 23:21:07 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke for in the case of social media, people are the product being sold...

   • Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 23:37:34 UTC Thorwegian ❄️

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke yes but with the reversal in which the user isn't the customer but thinks they are, and not only are the users not the customers (similar to mass media), no one's making content for them either. it's just the users. the users are creating the content that FB sells ad space for... back to the users, who have to view it. multiple levels of deception.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 28-Mar-2022 23:38:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @thor True, it's a new and sneakier capitalism. I guess surveillance capitalism does deserve its own name.