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9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Meta and twitter cease to exist tomorrow and 99% of the issues are solved IMO

The fediverse is social media and it doesn’t have anything close to the same kinds of harmful patterns

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chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Amazon, Google and Microsoft would still be there, so the Internet seems to be suffering from metastatic cancer at this point. Cutting off two revolting lumps helps, but the prognosis doesn’t look that great.

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- 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  None of those have had much success in creating social networks that suck people in quite like the others
  
  Not to say they don’t have their own problems, but the bulk of problems with social media come squarely from meta & twitter.
  
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  - chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.
    
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- Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There will be a big curtaining of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Adobe if Facebook, TikTok and Twitter (and YouTube) have their algorithmic feeds outlawed.
  
  It would probably cause the AI bubble to burst too so our OSs, Applications and Search Engines (and Government) would become usable again.
  
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  - sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    who will pay our representatives to push this through?
    
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
lemmy does have problems though. Lots of emotional, judgemental and brigading content still. But it’s less here than elsewhere, probably.

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vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It has. Discussions here are mostly, just like elsewhere, people throwing arrogant smartass-looking text at each other and refusing to elaborate or explain or reason. Due to the experience of getting into such, people who’d actually discuss something instead “money-first” post with a set of markers hinting at their opinions and possible arguments, and masquerade discussion as agreement. It’s only a little less exhausting than going into a shit-throwing contest, even if more rewarding.

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