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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I mean, what if “we” just stop using various social media platforms all together? I remember the days when various people never really shared their opinions and beliefs about most topics to the general public. Maybe we should get back to face to face conversations about life topics.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It's unlikely it'll go back in the bottle, and that style of social media is capable of facilitating positive social change (Arab spring as one example) that may not have been possible without it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The single example of a possible positive outcome? I remember when this happened, they made a big deal about it, however it may not have had that much of a positive effect. You know the void left to be filled with someone as bad or worse. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/middleeast/egypt-how-we-got-here/index.html

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yes, it's unfortunate it didn't have a positive effect long term due to being coopted. :(

    As people are going to continue to use twitter style websites until they fall out of fashion, I figure its best if that twitter-like is at least not controlled by people who can go rogue and do severe damage to society, such as what happened with twitter.

    We realistically can't ban them, we can only mitigate the bad. Personally I don't use twitter style social media, only Lemmy.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Humans are social creatures by nature. The goal should be to improve our social interactions instead of letting others exploit them for profit

    You can’t put that tube back in the tube of toothpaste

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Agreed, I left twitter almost a year ago and haven't felt the need to sign up for any of its alternatives, federated or not. I just haven't felt like my life is missing anything by not using these platforms.

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