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The original problem with social media is how content is algo-recommended to people from others they don't directly know, creating a popularity contest often wo
by hot_gril 3y ago
The original problem with social media is how content is algo-recommended to people from others they don't directly know, creating a popularity contest often won by dumb things like ragebait, bots, etc. Mastodon doesn't fix the problem, and small forums only avoid it until they become big.
- hot_gril 3y agoBtw, the old Facebook was pretty benign before pages and various kinds of global recommendations got added. It's still less toxic than Twitter or many others.