Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
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Hi it's still broken on my machine. I've tried turning it off and on again
Hi it's still broken on my machine.
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Sounds like it's time to delete it, then.
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Ofcourse not. The issue with social media are the people. Algorithms just bring out the worst in us but it didn't make us like that, we already were.
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Getting banned from Facebook. After a decade of clapping back against racists. Has been the best thing in my life. So glad to be out of there. Just wish I could have saved my pics first.
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I think just going back to internet forums circa early 2000s is probably a better way to engage honestly. They're still around, just not as "smartphone friendly" and doomscroll-enabled, due to the format.
I'm talking stuff like SomethingAwful, GaiaOnline, Fark, Newgrounds forum, GlockTalk, Slashdot, vBulletin etc.
These types of forums allowed you to discuss timely issues and news if you wanted. You could go a thousand miles deep on some bizarre subculture or stick to general discussion. They also had protomeme culture before that was a thing - aka "embedded image macros".
just not as “smartphone friendly” and doomscroll-enabled, due to the format.
Boowahahahahaha, I've used those with PSP default web browser. With Nintendo Wii web browser. With Java phone web browser (admittedly that was only to read, and very slowly).
Anyway, have clumsy sweaty big fingers (unfortunately due to my behavior girls don't extrapolate that feature anywhere anymore), strongly prefer anything with physical keys.
They also had protomeme culture before that was a thing - aka “embedded image macros”.
Images, links, enormous smilies' sets, colored text.
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As long as people worship themselves (but also, paradoxically, require everyone's attention and approval all the time just to make it to the next day), it will continue being that way. For those who see it for what it is and are disgusted by it, we have Lemmy/discussion boards.
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Meta and twitter cease to exist tomorrow and 99% of the issues are solved IMO
The fediverse is social media and it doesn't have anything close to the same kinds of harmful patterns
It has. Discussions here are mostly, just like elsewhere, people throwing arrogant smartass-looking text at each other and refusing to elaborate or explain or reason. Due to the experience of getting into such, people who'd actually discuss something instead "money-first" post with a set of markers hinting at their opinions and possible arguments, and masquerade discussion as agreement. It's only a little less exhausting than going into a shit-throwing contest, even if more rewarding.
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Because how to use it is baked into what it is. Like many big tech products, it’s not just a tool but also a philosophy. To use it is also to see the world through its (digital) eyes.
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Ofcourse not. The issue with social media are the people. Algorithms just bring out the worst in us but it didn't make us like that, we already were.
It magnifies the worst in people.
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None of those have had much success in creating social networks that suck people in quite like the others
Not to say they don't have their own problems, but the bulk of problems with social media come squarely from meta & twitter.
That’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.
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The amount of comments thinking that Lemmy is totally not like a typical social media is absurd.
Guys, we only don't have major tracking of users here.That's it! Everything else is the fucking same shit you'd see on facebook. The moment Lemmy gets couple tens of millions of users, we gonna become 2nd facebook.
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I mean, I feel like just shutting it down would solve at least some problems. Shuttering it all, video sharing platforms included.
Not a situation most anyone would agree on, but it's an idea.
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The amount of comments thinking that Lemmy is totally not like a typical social media is absurd.
Guys, we only don't have major tracking of users here.That's it! Everything else is the fucking same shit you'd see on facebook. The moment Lemmy gets couple tens of millions of users, we gonna become 2nd facebook.
I haven't used FB in half a decade, but at least with respect to reddit, there are definitely more good "features" in the threadiverse than just lack of tracking.
Not saying there aren't any issues or that scaling to 10 M MAUs won't create new problems, but lack of tracking isn't the only differentiating factor.
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The AlGoRyThMs are what is inducing the social damage.
Even games of chance (like Poker Machines and) would be less destructive if they were fairer and less engaging.
But who writes those algorithms and AIs? And why? And why do they work?
