By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Rather, these friends just want to *be your friends*, which means that they don't want to get into stupid endless fights to keep you replying or stage little entertaining skits to keep you scrolling. 24/ 11306
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026At first, Zuck tried tweaking his algorithm to replace your friends with trolls who'd bait you into flamewars. 25/ 113112
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026When that petered out, he stole a march from Tiktok and recruited an army of theater kids to do amateur dramatics for you in exchange for the promise of an intermittent reward schedule payment for the sketches that got the most views: pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/f... 26/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 11118
