The siloverse platforms have obviously bad stuff build in, like ads (including the really dangerous kind) and centralized data sale and other stuff, that we've managed to ameliorate.
But there is a part in which they catered for basic human desires: attention, recognition, etc. And in catering to these "consumer demands" ultimately created patterns (e.g. follower-feed) that we have inherited. (Lemmy/reddit suffers less from this, acknowledged)
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