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If I used social networks, I might give it a try. (I did actually check it out though) But all social media networks seem anti-productive to me and, well, just

If I used social networks, I might give it a try. (I did actually check it out though) But all social media networks seem anti-productive to me and, well, just not actually very social. With respect to connecting with family & friends, I'd much prefer a pure platform based pretty much on just that. With respect to other people with interesting things to say, I'd prefer blogs aggregating & curated sites like, well, HN itself. For the former, I don't know how you get to a "pure" platform like that where you can communicate & share experiences/photos with each other without also letting meme-ish "lol this person of <political affiliation I hate> is an idiot"> posts through, but at the very least it could avoid surfacing them algorithmically and rewarding them with "internet points".

cvwright 5y ago
You’re right that it’s infeasible to block everything dumb from an online system. Humans gonna human. > avoid surfacing them algorithmically and rewarding them This is the key. And I’ve come to believe that the only way to prevent the platforms doing their algorithmic engagement maximization thing is to encrypt everything E2E.
sneak 5y ago
The social networks you may be used to are historically manipulative, censoring and shaping your feed to benefit the social network, not the society. The nice thing about these open protocols is that they are simply reverse chronological. You see what you choose to see, in the order it was published. It's a totally different experience than the engineered rollercoaster that is corporate social media.
0xdeadb00f 5y ago
IME mastodon/pleroma/"the fediverse" is really cool because you have two kind of communities you interact with. Depending on the instance you can have a grand old time interacting with people in your "local" timeline (your instance only), but you can also venture into the wild west that is the federated timeline from all instances.

cvwright 5y ago

You’re right that it’s infeasible to block everything dumb from an online system. Humans gonna human. > avoid surfacing them algorithmically and rewarding them This is the key. And I’ve come to believe that the only way to prevent the platforms doing their algorithmic engagement maximization thing is to encrypt everything E2E.

sneak 5y ago

The social networks you may be used to are historically manipulative, censoring and shaping your feed to benefit the social network, not the society. The nice thing about these open protocols is that they are simply reverse chronological. You see what you choose to see, in the order it was published. It's a totally different experience than the engineered rollercoaster that is corporate social media.

0xdeadb00f 5y ago

IME mastodon/pleroma/"the fediverse" is really cool because you have two kind of communities you interact with. Depending on the instance you can have a grand old time interacting with people in your "local" timeline (your instance only), but you can also venture into the wild west that is the federated timeline from all instances.