@robpike I have bash and awk scripts in my ~/bin/ last edited in 1995 that I still use daily. They work just fine.
There's plenty of technology that works well and for a long time. Definitely cannot say the same thing about the businesses that have attached themselves to tech though.
It is not all broken and unfixable. We know what to do. It's just very difficult, and being actively fought against.
I’m just remembering the time FB killed a bunch of small media companies by pretending that its video engagement was through the roof.
And the time they non-consensually experimented with only showing awful things to certain users to see if it would isolate and depress them (it did).
And the time they hosted the livestream of a mass shooting hate crime.
And the time they enabled a genocide.
Or Cambridge Analytica. JFC remembering facts and events is not hard.
I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!