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submitted 10 months ago by Fitik@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.

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[-] swope@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to "drive engagement" that I don't think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.

Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I've had on profit-driven social media sites.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 10 months ago

i feel like gamification will become more pronounced as more applications allow for more expression of the full AP protocol.

i think youre wrong about fediverse implementation. lemmy is already pushing for downvotes everywhere, the 'bins expose 'reputation points'. gamification is somewhat inevitable as its a part of human nature, and seems to already be happening with or without 'commercial social media'

i agree with the relaxed feeling but i havent used those commercial sites (cept reddit) in decades, i cant really relate. the verse feels very early reddit-y to me, which is what i wanted.

... no ads, just people and links and nonsense, hooray!

this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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