Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.
These platforms recommend me falsehoods with braindead comments, on FB I can’t even fight them because it forces me to use my real name.
The rest of the contents is ads from fake profiles. As everyone got tired of their bullshit, my friends aren’t there anymore, except those who fell for propaganda and conspiracy theories.
If I post something I’m giving away my privacy for free and for company profits, whose greed is destroying democracy as it is and was.
Why would I go there?
Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.
i think the fediverse might solve for a lot of this.
its still very early, the 'verse software space is still pretty wild-west, and there is no telling how ‘the emojid masses’ will take to the fediverse. That also assumes it can achieve sufficient momentum.
there would theoretically be enough diversity in the fediverse to account for many of those concerns. dont like bots? there are bot-free instances. hate ads? there are many self-sustaining , user-supported models.
not a given, but not outside the realm of possibility
I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to “drive engagement” that I don’t think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.
Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I’ve had on profit-driven social media sites.
Lol, at that paywall, it only let’s you see a single sentence.
@kubica Oops, dropped a link
