Thread | Brutkey

So, about this “social media can’t be fixed” article:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/

I had a personal social media project I was working on, but a few years ago I came to the same conclusion: that the world needed another social media platform like it needed airborne Ebola. I quietly abandoned the project.

Any lingering hope I had that social media could be fixed has been comprehensively demolished by LLMs. It’s just a cancer at this point.

So why am I here? Well, this is the last platform I’m still posting publicly on as I try to wean myself off social media entirely. Every now and again I encounter someone who acts like radiation therapy.