Gregory's ServerIt should be clear now that it was and remains a catastrophic mistake for people to view privately owned social media platforms as any kind of public resource. People didn't know better a decade ago. They have no excuse now.
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 @GuillaumeRossolini @dangoodin as you say (we do sympathize with people whose livelihoods depend on those platforms)  @dangoodin It certainly didn't help that they were marketed that way. (Digital town square nonsense.)  @dangoodin People *should* have known better a decade ago; we went through this same thing with AOL back at the turn of the century. I'm afraid the necessity of open platforms and decentralization is something people are going to have to re-learn every generation. @dangoodin By โprivately ownedโ do you mean privately held companies or any corporate ownership? Iโm not sure what the viable alternatives are.  @jimfenton @dangoodin "Viable" is doing too much work in your rhetorical question. You're here on Fedi, don't you find this space viable? @dangoodin @angdraug Fedi is great, but still a work-in-progress. Not clear to me how well it will work at full Twitter scale. Moderation is hard. @jimfenton @dangoodin I am an engineer. I thrive in good enough environments, and I am allergic to perfection and premature optimization. This space is good enough, and even more importantly, it gives me more agency to maintain and improve its usefulness than any private capital controlled social platform. Yes, democracy is hard. Democracy at scale, even harder. Still worth it, when all the alternatives are various forms of monarchy and oligarchy. @dangoodin Iโd go further and say _any_ automated platform that relies on advertising for revenue will always end up deeply enshitified as they have to chase โengagementโ. And what engages most is outrage. So we end up with systems, that by design, drag you further and further in the world of grift and crazies.  @bjn @dangoodin But I was throttled first by ad-based social media and that is how they get you to dance for the devil to get seen and they groom and channel the outrage type of engagement, rather than the joyful kind. |
@dangoodin last hold out are streaming platforms?