It feels like the tragedy of the commons all over again, a public space becomes dominated by private interests and eventually destroyed.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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this is the correct usage of the term, if any. it was a stupid concept as originally envisioned
Umm, I don't know about y'all, but I'm not seeing any adverts here. Like none.
Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.
i think the fediverse might solve for a lot of this.
its still very early, the 'verse software space is still pretty wild-west, and there is no telling how 'the emojid masses' will take to the fediverse. That also assumes it can achieve sufficient momentum.
there would theoretically be enough diversity in the fediverse to account for many of those concerns. dont like bots? there are bot-free instances. hate ads? there are many self-sustaining , user-supported models.
not a given, but not outside the realm of possibility
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.
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!
I worry about if the corps ever notice the fedi. It feels like it wouldn't be very hard to overwhelm it with astroturfing, especially with the currently available tools for moderation
also, most of us aren't in it for money. that changes everything.
On the flip side, people might have just realized they simply had nothing to post about. Or this was my case. At most, I was posting on groups, where I was sure people would read what I posted, or I was addressing them (e.g. Hey everyone, what did you listen to lately?). But other than that, I was mostly commenting or even just liking.
What annoys me the most on Facebook is that you are being served content from people you do not follow, and is sometimes for things I am not even interested in. Like, I just want to follow my goddamn friends, is it that hard for you to do it, Meta?
on Facebook is that you are being served content from people you do not follow, and is sometimes for things I am not even interested in
It feels like the enshittification is almost complete. People came to Facebook because their friends and family posted there. Now Facebook is deprioritizing posts of friends/family in favour of ads.
Facebook got so bad that you couldn't even see anything your friends posted. It was all sponsored content. So eventually most people completely stopped posting, myself included. It looks like they backed off that BS a couple of days ago, but it's probably too late, the flight away has already occurred.
People are tired of being farmed and manipulated?
These platforms recommend me falsehoods with braindead comments, on FB I can't even fight them because it forces me to use my real name.
The rest of the contents is ads from fake profiles. As everyone got tired of their bullshit, my friends aren't there anymore, except those who fell for propaganda and conspiracy theories.
If I post something I'm giving away my privacy for free and for company profits, whose greed is destroying democracy as it is and was.
Why would I go there?
I hope not
I mean, I would agree. I still use social media, but not as often or as enthusiastically as I did a year ago. I'm pretty sure you already know who I blame for this.
Thank that garbage meta