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Wow, imagine major religions eventually taking the next step to building their own official social media ecosystems, built by programmer priests.



Yeah, I like to imagine programmer monks hidden away working on assembly language for thousands of years.

Reminds me of the book Anathem (great book, tons of Catholic imagery)


That would be awesome! The catholic church certainly has the resources to do that kind of thing, and churches are already like a sort of social network, so they have a very captive audience. They are in a unique position to create a social network that doesn't need to monetize through any kind of ads or data collection, and I imagine their status as a religious organization can even get them tax breaks.




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