Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

zeropointone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • zeropointone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • amju_wolf@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Social media hasn’t been designed for these problems, though. It’s more a babelfish thing.

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