OnlySubs: Stepping Back from the Fakeness of Social Media
May 6, 2026
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as posted by the channelOnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 160
Something is wrong with social media. Since we generally act as though we're aware of that fact but don't realize it, maybe it actually means something is wrong with us. I'm finding this issue more and more pressing and harder to ignore lately. In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take a few minutes to explore this personally with you and to suggest that there's a light available in fundamentally changing our relationship to just how fake social media really is. I hope you'll join me for this exploration and in starting to think profoundly differently about this tool we incorrectly believe represents something like a "digital public square."
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