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user-inactivated · 4382 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hitler’s Strange Afterlife in India - The Daily Beast
wow. in fact i read the article only after commenting (my bad) and i mostly agree with you but i'm still trying to believe in the writer's honest naivete :)
I remember when I didn't think everything was a gigantic marketing scheme. Then you read about W&K and hit the weird realization that social media essentially functions as a means of cataloguing your interests to create cheap, personalized ad experiences. That life on the web has become a slow echo chamber of everything you already agree with is sent back to you. Everything else can be put on an ignore list. Not a giant conspiracy of course. Its just smart business. If the author was smart we wouldn't have even noticed. But he didn't and wasn't.