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I'd go further - just leave social media
by mglvsky 4mo ago
I'd go further - just leave social media
- jwr 4mo agoNo, not necessarily. Mastodon is actually "social media", as opposed to twitter/X, bluewhatever, facebook, or any other commercial outlet, to be honest, all of these have become "feeds" of promoted content designed to maximize "engagement". Mastodon is social: you follow people, you see their stuff. It's what social media used to be.
- soco 4mo agoWhich is what eYou is trying to build as well. Including AI fact-checking: far from perfect but interesting to read its fact checks on your own posts.
- pfraze 4mo agoFyi it’s actually called bluesky, not bluewhatever
- addedGone 4mo agoBluesky is really lagging in user adoption because the name itself implies some sort of political divide, and from experience, it seems that it's an echo chamber where "right" activists are getting demolished at the first occasion, I wished it would have a mix of people and opinion.
- pfraze 4mo agoWcyd? It was the name that Dorsey chose before the PBC was even formed. It's from the technical term of art, like greenfield.
- onraglanroad 4mo agoI'm guessing that's because blue means left wing in the USA and red means right wing. Why did you switch them around? Red always meant left wing. Even in the US red meant the Soviets. It's just confusing to everyone else.
- tancop 4mo agono one really knows, when broadcasters started using party colors it was all over the place and they settled on blue for dems. i guess its because neither party was socialist so there was no association with red like in europe.
- shermantanktop 4mo agoYou’re posting that on HN. I consider HN to be social media but lacking the most pernicious features (ads, algorithmic feeds) and benefitting from both strong moderation and self-policing. But it gets to do that by being funded from extrinsic sources, which is itself a compromise.