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I've seen various articles about this and frankly, yes lots of people know it's an issue. I'm tired of hearing about the problems, does anyone have any ideas fo

I've seen various articles about this and frankly, yes lots of people know it's an issue. I'm tired of hearing about the problems, does anyone have any ideas for a solution to this issue? Maybe creating a curated index of sites that are dedicated to small and well known bloggers? I recall seeing there was a site that someone was personally building with this idea in mind, but I don't recall what it was called.

WeylandYutani 3y ago
I run FF with ublock, clearurl, localcdn and privacy badger.
sledgehammers 3y ago
How do we fix social media? Let's start with the huge societal problems: - optimizing for addiction - fighting for attention People need social validation for their personalities. Social media drives people into perfectionism - yet never being enough. You need to modify your entire self image to fit somekind of hazy image of perfect whatever. You are fighting for attention, you need to do ever more crazy and better shit to get more attention. Other huge societal problems: - sensorship, misinformation, death of journalism and therefore truth and therefore democracy - centralized greedy growth-seeking monopolist culture kills innovation, creates dystopia Is a well functioning distributed system a possibility? Your own device, or your goverments, or some global 3rd party, you choose, as a host? Let's not give the control of the internet to another monopoly with hardware like amazon, or monopoly with the traffic like cloudfare or whatever. Let's avoid these giant tech monopolies.
gnfargbl 3y ago
The article author is non-technical. I found it interesting that things are apparently now broken enough that non-technical audiences are starting to get upset. Their complaint is really twofold: (a) search used to work but now doesn't, and (b) there is now too much extraneous bullshit on the pages that they get directed to. Both of these complaints could be fixed by a better internet search engine. Articles like this feel like a signal that conditions for a change in search dominance are finally materialising.

WeylandYutani 3y ago

I run FF with ublock, clearurl, localcdn and privacy badger.

sledgehammers 3y ago

How do we fix social media? Let's start with the huge societal problems: - optimizing for addiction - fighting for attention People need social validation for their personalities. Social media drives people into perfectionism - yet never being enough. You need to modify your entire self image to fit somekind of hazy image of perfect whatever. You are fighting for attention, you need to do ever more crazy and better shit to get more attention. Other huge societal problems: - sensorship, misinformation, death of journalism and therefore truth and therefore democracy - centralized greedy growth-seeking monopolist culture kills innovation, creates dystopia Is a well functioning distributed system a possibility? Your own device, or your goverments, or some global 3rd party, you choose, as a host? Let's not give the control of the internet to another monopoly with hardware like amazon, or monopoly with the traffic like cloudfare or whatever. Let's avoid these giant tech monopolies.

gnfargbl 3y ago

The article author is non-technical. I found it interesting that things are apparently now broken enough that non-technical audiences are starting to get upset. Their complaint is really twofold: (a) search used to work but now doesn't, and (b) there is now too much extraneous bullshit on the pages that they get directed to. Both of these complaints could be fixed by a better internet search engine. Articles like this feel like a signal that conditions for a change in search dominance are finally materialising.