<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, 1:59 am Mark Tinka, <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 10/9/21 00:43, Markus Akena Wipfler
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<div dir="auto">I would call it a general problem of
globalisation. Connecting everyone everywhere brings it's set
of challenges. To satisfy an ever growing global demand we
need complex tools that we humans operate with a brain that
for the majority of human existence was used to deal with
local issues. I believe we need to get back to focusing more
on local markets and providing local solutions. Ofc stupidity
can occur anywhere but at a local level the impact is only
felt locally. <br>
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Two issues here, really:<br>
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<li>Trying to deliver a service for free to eyeballs at scale will
require massive over-engineering, and the associated risk.</li></ul></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No argument there. But FB is not for free. We are the product. We pay with our privacy.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><ul><li> If
the service provided better reliability through a nominal
subscription, would you pay for it? The fact that the horse has
left the barn, notwithstanding?</li></ul></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">I don't use any FB services apart from Whatsapp which I only use coz of one family chat group :) </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><ul>
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<li>The incessant need to keep growing, as a mechanism to report
corporate and self-worth, is likely to dumb local concentration
to a reasonable degree. The Internet is the ideal platform for
this (problem).<br></li></ul></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Where is this need coming from? Is it in our nature, or are we exposed to subliminal life long programming to keep the hamster wheel turning? </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><ul><li>
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<p>Mark.<br>
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