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What Future with Joshua Topolsky

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How Much of the Internet Is Real?

I don't think that the fantasy of endless growth will ever will ever map onto like any sort of healthy social network. You know, I don't think it's really possible in any industry with any model at all, but certainly not with social media. On top of this conversation about how the internet is sort of breaking what we know of like humanity, how much of it is real? Right. In some ways those people do chart the conversation for a much larger audience that isn't in places like Twitter and maybe isn't on Facebook. But is that real?You've been off Twitter. You've been basically not using it for several years. Did you feel in that time that like the

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