▲ 112 ▼ Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media (open.substack.com) submitted 3 years ago by Quexotic@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments This article from 2022 does a very good job of capturing the social media landscape and the condition of political discourse right now. It highlights one thing that I've been hearing a lot and agree with, the cruelty is the point.