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Stephen Downes

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This is an 18-year old waxing nostalgic about a web never experienced. "When social media caught on, the people running these companies were tasked to make it profitable. In doing this, social media got completely ruined. Our data got commodified, our attention got commodified, and a substantive part of who we say we are got commodified. This, in general, has led to a degradation in the quality of the internet."

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