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We just need a distinct definition first. Moderated forums were kind of great in general. Early social media with chronological feeds of your friends were usefu
by croon 9mo ago
We just need a distinct definition first. Moderated forums were kind of great in general. Early social media with chronological feeds of your friends were useful too. The nebulous algorithms pulling people into reinforcing rabbit holes of trash or simply optimizing for "engagement" (outrage) is the primary issue IMHO.
If we can only ban the bad stuff, great, but it's rarely that easy.
- lossyalgo 9mo agoExactly - ban addictive dark patterns in ALL software for ALL ages.
- surgical_fire 9mo agoFair enough. Typically what I call Social Media is akin to things such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Anything that has a personalized "feed" generated by an algorithm. Old moderates forums had no personalized anything. Incidentally, as much as I despise Reddit, this would exclude Reddit from being banned. Last time I used it, it didn't really have a personalized feed (unless things changed ever since). I could subscribe to subreddits and see the activity on what I subscribed, but anyone with the same subscription list (fully controlled by the user) would see the same activity, so it was not a personalized feed per se.