Comment on Does anyone else feel like Kurzgesagt is describing the Fediverse in their latest video?
noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 11 months agoI feel like it’s unlikely to happen regardless of the userbase. Fediverse as a whole seems to have been built on different merits and it’s curated by the large corporations, so they won’t be coming here with their algorithms and ad-revenue and thirst for profits and engagement.
The biggest difference between Fediverse and the old-school internet websites, like forums and blogs and such, is that Fediverse is relatively easily intertwined; it’s an ecosystem that consists of autonomous small-ish communities that get to choose whether and what they share. If you want, you can basically make one account, subscribe to as much shit from the Fediverse as you like, and have it all come to your curated feed (defederation happens, though) - or you can treat it all as separate platforms and have one account for each, with occasional guests hopping by (like you’re with d.gs and I’m with feddit.de).
Even if there are platforms that later use the same protocols to try and get some profits, they’ll most likely be out of everyone’s memory much like Threads (remember that?) because it’s just not the same as creating some kind of “everything platform” and have people walled off there to “engage” with rage-inducing content and have them (hopefully) generate ad revenue.
kernelle@0d.gs 11 months ago
Thats’s where OP’s kurzgesagt video comes into play, they state that we as humans do not have the mental capacity to process the amount of information that is available to us. Social media hijacks this need for connection.
We as humans tend to seek out likeminded people, every kind of person is welcome here but the fact that we’re all using the same platform connects us in a way. There comes a point in every social media where this interconnection fades away due to a growing userbase, because when a platform reaches this point users no longer feel that base connection and start interacting with people in a completely different, much more negative, way.
The OP video explains how engagement driven rage content is not the cause of that, but rather a result of this loss of interconnection.
I do agree/hope the fediverse has smaller chance of that happening, but statistics would probably predict a similar direction when this platform hits a critical mass.