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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 10:27:58 CET Aral Balkan

   • Björn Schießle ? ??

   @bjoern “when Mark Zuckerberg was making Facebook in his dorm room bedroom, he probably wasn’t trying to make this dopamine-inducing tool”

   Yes he was. He called his users “dumb fucks”. Can we please stop perpetuating this myth and giving the people who knowingly created this mess a pass with this “oops, they just wanted to make things better but ended up making things worse and accidentally becoming billionaires” narrative.

   VC/startups/the Silicon Valley model is unethical.

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.
   • Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 10:32:14 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

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     • Björn Schießle ? ??
     @aral @bjoern As far as I remember Facebook was originally created so that Zuck could stalk his college contemporaries in a voyeuristic manner. So it originates from a place of creepyness.
     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.