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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)
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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In many cases I believe SOMEONE is paying these supermods.

It's more about controlling public discourse than it is any sense of moral compass IMO.

It's a fairly cheap way to control the narrative on just about whatever you like if you can steer acceptable speech around hot button issues on such a large platform.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

idk, I was in a Discord with many of them during the vaxxhappened protest and I didn't get the impression any had particularly strong backbones. Not saying it doesn't happen but I really have a hard time picturing most of the "powermods" as having the will to control anything. They (largely) seemed pretty afraid to rock the boat or upset Spez.