By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026But when it comes to Mark Zuckerberg, I'm increasingly convinced that he didn't acquire his worldview through the self-inflicted brain damage of his long exposure to the back-end of a vast social media system. 3/ 119913
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026I think the causal arrow points in the other direction: I think that Zuck founded Facebook *because* he doesn't really believe that other people are truly *real*, at least not as real as he is. 4/ 945360
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026We see this in Facebook's very earliest days, as we see it today, as we see it at every critical juncture in Facebook and Zuckerberg's history. 5/ 11704
Sisyphus Rex @whatsmyageagain23.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I mean, the only original idea he's had is the hot-or-not site for comparing women's looks right? Then he stole the facebook idea from those wealthy sociopath brothers. And we are letting these people have basically unlimited power over our online lives. 060
Chopchop @chopchopok.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for a lot of exec types. I get the impression that they see people in "haves" and "have-nots", and that it is completely okay for the latter group to suffer to benefit the former. They put themselves in the former group of course 000
Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Didn't he literally start it as a way to “rate” the hotness of girls? Facebook STARTED as a sociopathic project for treating other people as objects. I think he’s just a creep who has always been a creep and always will be, with or without social media. 070
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 07/08/2026Zuck a monster? Ya don't say! bsky.app/profile/elkm...Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.socialI’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this) 36415
Charles Julian @molynj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I'm not an expert, but have you described something akin to narcissism there? Certainly someone who is "not quite right". 010
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