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> you need to act on the regulatory level This. Otherwise it's just a fruitless game of whac-a-mole as new reptiles inevitably step up to sustain the profit op

• trueno 28d ago
  tru, although i don't think there's anything at this point that can compel meta or zuck to do jack squat especially in the default country. as we've already seen. these days with what might as well be branch capture by these bazillionaire entities, id be very surprised to see any actions attempted at the regulatory level against zuck against meta against any of this class ever actually make it into law. am i jaded sure but im mostly stepping back and looking at the game board at this point. i will be very surprised if things ever balance / restore in my lifetime, for now i literally do think the rest of my life is not going to have any chapter where the law puts zuckerberg or meta in its place.
• sixtyj 28d ago
  Who wants to fight a battle that could be a lifelong one and along the way some lose their enthusiasm for the cause… I would rather make a lifelong campaign “don’t do drugs”… if you make national all-year-long donate-funded campaigns on every corner, social networks’ providers would need to regulate themselves as they’ll have higher churn rate. Recent campaigns don’t work too much as they are endemic.
  • swed420 28d ago
    When we have a captured government and unaccountable corporations like we do, it seems like the best route is to compete with them via carefully designed not-for-profit products which contain strictly good features and none of the enshittified ones, as brainstormed here: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/ https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/ Building something as described in that article would cause people to drop all of the existing platforms almost overnight.
    • unrented7977 27d ago
      This is like suggesting fruit and veg could outcompete heroin. You can't compete against someone who is willing to cheat. You can't entice users to a better social network when their addiction to the old one has been engineered to near perfection. There's good reason that our present (and really truly good) alternative social networks haven't taken over Facebook's users. It's designed to be an addictive trap with no escape. You can't pull users away unless you're willing to be an even worse drug. You have to force the other guy to stop cheating for competition to be possible.
      • swed420 27d ago
        > This is like suggesting fruit and veg could outcompete heroin. No it's not. > You can't entice users to a better social network when their addiction to the old one has been engineered to near perfection. Sure, not with that attitude. But the article clearly articulates why better platforms could easily exist. Current platforms are filled with bots and slop that makes people hate themselves. The new platform would easily sell itself, and it need not be destructive like you're implying. > There's good reason that our present (and really truly good) alternative social networks haven't taken over Facebook's users. None of the existing alternatives are without problems, and the article spells this out in detail.