By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026But that, too, hit a limit. Most of us don't like having our limbic systems tormented by strangers. As anyone who is sick to the back teeth of just *hearing* the word "Trump" can attest, living in a trollocracy is *exhausting*. 7/ 1262
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026Enter Tiktok. Tiktok found a way to connect you to strangers who *don't* make you angry. 8/ 1131
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026By offering performers money for media that you "engaged" with, Tiktok offloaded the work of convincing you to conduct your online life in to maximize opportunities to show you an ad onto an army of theater kids who spend every hour god sends figuring out how to keep you looking at Tiktok. 9/ 1122
