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All the "alternatives" focus on decentralization or some other technobabble and address zero of the concerns that non-tech people have with mainstream social ne
by Nextgrid 4y ago
All the "alternatives" focus on decentralization or some other technobabble and address zero of the concerns that non-tech people have with mainstream social networks.
- smoldesu 4y ago> the concerns that non-tech people have with mainstream social networks. What do these people care about, then? As far as I can tell, the majority of them were perfectly contented with Twitter as-is until Elon bought it, so I'd wager that decentralization is actually high on the list of most people's desires, whether they know it or not.
- Nextgrid 4y ago> What do these people care about, then? Bad user experience, ads and conflict of interest with regards to monetization (the user wants to use the product to see content they want to see, but the platform wants to show the user content - or ads, or as we used to call it: spam - it wants the user to see). > As far as I can tell, the majority of them were perfectly contented with Twitter as-is until Elon bought it The majority of them are actually content even after Elon bought it. The only thing that really spilled outside of "tech Twitter" was the banning of journalists. Everything else is just tech people making up a storm in a teacup.
- colesantiago 4y agoThis also includes Mastodon which I don't think has taken off at all with the non-tech people at all. It is almost like nothing has happened really and close to nobody wants federation or decentralisation gobbledygook that the public doesn't understand.
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