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So let me get this straight: First, it was Elon. Now, it is Mark. Two guys are removing all moderation rules on social media. And are people asking another billionaire to build alternative social media? Do you even hear yourself? That is not going to fix anything. Maybe we should go back to the days of blogs, mailing lists, individual forums, and RSS feeds and end this madness of centralized social media apart from the federation. I’m just saying
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CJ Paloma says Brrrrr

@mmby @haui @jarno
hard agree.

When people "get" how much we are indoctrinated into our values and priorities via socialization…it's a game changer. my favorite example is how millions of US soldiers went to "fight against fascism" in WWII, and came home and continued to oppress certain groups…without any self awareness.

to paraphrase: it's the social hierarchies, stupid.

Hint: all cultures touched by colonization will have lots of sick values baked right into them.

@haui @Jarno @mmby
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haui

@wonka @jarno well of course they are. What else should they do? Have you seen idiocracy? Thats not science fiction or comedy. Thats the US of A, today. That and „dont look up“ should be mandatory for every person in the US to watch, hell in the world, until the situation improves.

My suggestion: inform and organize yourselves with local groups and start legal proceedings as well as protests against these knuckleheads.

@Jarno @Wilfried Klaebe
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Natsura

yeah sadly most of the internet population has their heads so far up the corporate assholes they don't want something UNLESS it is owned by a corporation while still having the right to say, "Corporations are utter bullshit and evil and we need to do away with billion dollar corporations" it is ridiculous and embarrassing that they aren't willing to stand by their words and practice what they preach.
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grabe

I think blogs and RSS at least individualize social allowing more control. The problem is one of participation and critical mass. Too many don’t really care or don’t understand and content creators hedge by offering their work both via blogs and social media centralization. I don’t see a way to shift enough consumers to change this stalemate. Policies such as Musk’s lowering the visibility of tweets containing links serves to limit options.
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Eric's Edge

IMHO we should start using blogs, mailing lists, forums, and RSS feeds in addition to social media.
Perhaps we should use something like proper backups, 3-2-1. Three copies of your content, posted on two different media systems, with one copy kept on your own host site.

Maybe videos on YouTube, PeerTube, and through a torrent from local storage?
Blog posts on ko-fi, self hosted website, ???

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WesDym

What was fundamentally different before modern social media was that hosts and providers were only that, and did not profit from user content, so they had little motive other than policing to interfere with it.

Imagine if your phone company could profit from what you say on the phone, and how often, and who hears it. That's the reality we're in right now online. The profit motives of commercial hosts in a minimally regulated mediascape inescapably lead to such manipulation.

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JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

I think that's exactly what's going to happen. There was only ever one "universal" social platform: Facebook - that experiment is about to end badly & there's no reason to believe people want an alternative all that much. For most, they did it this one time because it was easy & everyone was there & it looked like it had promise, it worked for a while & then it stopped working & people will just fade from it & go back to not having a social media profile at all...
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dawiidio

couldn’t agree more, I still run my own blog and I will do it as long as possible, any sm is just a wrapper around content there.
But as someone already mentioned, the problem is in discoverability - it’s really hard to break through google. Also, more recent problem, AI scrapping. And law is far behind it, or decides to be far behind because it is profitable.
Somewhere I hope we are entering the post-social-media era, and ppl will turn more to real world.
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