Social media hasn’t been designed for these problems, though. It’s more a babelfish thing.
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zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fixing social media is like fixing guns so they can’t hurt or kill anyone anymore. Both have been designed for a very particular purpose.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 day ago
zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every problem is an opportunity to earn even more money or gain even more power. Bad for average users, great for those who own and control the platform.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lemmy is social media. So is Mastodon. So is peer tube. And everything else in the fediverse.
So I wouldn’t compare social media to a gun, across the board.
ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
What is not social media? Were the forums from before Friendster, MySpace, Facebook social media too? I don’t know anyone here. Is a mall a house?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Social media is defined by users being the main source of content. Not by friendship. Fox News is not social media, because you can’t just upload content to Fox News.
zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All those platforms work the same way. In the end it’s all about the same social dynamics, about control. “We are the alternative to all the shitty peer groups out there! Join us!” is one of the oldest tricks in the playbook. There is no alternative. Because it’s all based on human nature.
amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 day ago
Reddit certainly had it’s problems but was actually pretty good for the ~15 years before it started getting enshittified more and more to try to extract value.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
The AlGoRyThMs are what is inducing the social damage.
Even games of chance (like Poker Machines and) would be less destructive if they were fairer and less engaging.
zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But who writes those algorithms and AIs? And why? And why do they work?