Silicon Valley has sold the idea of tech in classrooms for years, because they get access to lifelong customers and valuable data. But while corporations like Google make billions, student test scores are falling.
Silicon Valley has sold the idea of tech in classrooms for years, because they get access to lifelong customers and valuable data. But while corporations like Google make billions, student test scores are falling.
Using an alternative means you’d only reach people who already know the problems with big tech.
You need to reach people where they are to have any chance at giving them new information
At the very least mirror it to/from an alternative in case the Empire strikes (back)
I find this interesting. I agree with your point, the problem I have is with the, sort of, reverse of what you’re touching on here. Before cambridge analytica, SecureScuttleButt was really fun, full of geeky people talking about and sharing geeky things; after cambridge analytica, a ton of people left from facebook to SSB and suddenly the conversation turned inward and everybody was talking about the platform itself and how to “improve it” and how to have safe spaces, remove posts, federation etc. Same thing with X/Bsky. Early on Bsky was fun and geeky and whatnot. Then people from X went there looking for refuge and everyone started talking about the platform itself or, even worse, talking about the “birb site” and the conversation diluted and became less interesting. I’m glad about the fediverse because so far I don’t seem to have hit that wall yet. (sorry if this is super off-topic)