I wouldn't say it was centralized. They repeatedly begged over and over for volunteers to help moderate and even administrate the instance. Nobody stepped up, it seems.
They reached out to the community. The community declined their requests.
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8 legs and not one hand among them...
Okay, human centipede it is then.
Don't mix them up!
The presents, or the kids v. Anakin part?
"Yes"!
If misogyny were somehow magically solved tomorrow, then Xhitter would still remain a ~~misogynistic~~ hellhole, featuring a cesspit of whatever traits of humanity triggered clicking or views or whatever generates the highest profits (maybe in the future, trying to gain the attention of bots will vastly outweigh what happens to us here humans, in the same manner as corporations replaced individual businesses in the economic sphere?).
The specific situation described in the article is misogy, but it points to deeper roots of enshittification. The 15 year old girl will still feel put upon, even unsafe, even if it has nothing to do with her femininity anymore.
School is mandatory, Xhitter is not.
If she walked home and along the way stopped off at a particular cafe, and always got side-eyed by people there... then yeah, I would say hang out somewhere else?
Be the change that you want to see in the world, and all of that.
We here are not:-).
"Social media" generally implies an algorithm delivering monotized content, so Lemmy is not true social media.
It is media that is social, but it's nonetheless very very very different.
Not true. It actually makes your attention span WORSE than a goldfish! 😞
It is everywhere, including irl.
However, I would guess it is more prevalent on Xhitter than here.
Better yet, make a UK-based Mastodon instance "for the children", keeping it safe from such?
If you always get catcalled between Fourth Street and Sixth Street, and you never get catcalled on First through Third Street or Seventh and above, then yeah, maybe just know that going onto Fifth Street you might get catcalled?
You could try expressing your explicit disapproval to Elon Musk directly, maybe that will help?
Actually no, it's not just "Fifth Street", it's Fifth Street in an entirely different country. Tiktok is based on China, Insta and Twitter are in the USA. Normally the rules governing a platform are a combination of the origination point and whatever interrelations exist - although obviously Donald Trump is rewriting those at will to suit him. And yet the UK could do the same... or make an alternative, if it wanted to?
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This illustration makes use of the double entendre of the techie word "cloud" to mean both a server farm and also those white-ish or grey puffy things up in the sky.
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If this is not a good fit for the community let me know.
Edit: for people who can't see hashtags, this is programming humor about a website (where people mainly only care about how things appear from the perspective of the end-user).
(it really would be nice to see a more graceful handling of these)
Edit: and what do you know, 16 minutes after cross-posting this to !piefed_meta@piefed.social, Rimu agrees, changes the code, and deploys onto piefed.social to retain deleted posts. PieFed really is something!! (announcement post)
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~~PieFed allows this to be set for your user account, which should thereafter work for any app that supports PieFed.~~
See screenshots in https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1626487/more-search-options-nsfw-and-minimum-post-score.
Edit: okay I forgot entirely how this works (it's a search filter, not a user profile one), but that post explains it regardless.