A mechanism or tactic · 2023 · AI
Keeping what the update cannot take
The practical advice that follows from the companion era: copy the conversation that mattered somewhere the company cannot reach, screenshot the birthday, tell one person the story of what it was for.
Grief needs witnesses and the product is an unreliable one, because the company can change the terms overnight and has no reason not to. The witness has to be human and has to be outside the platform, which is also just true of grief that never involved a platform.
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