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title = "\"social media\" is a failed model invented by capitalists"
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summary = "here on the World Wide Web you have two threats: capitalist enclosure, and toxic community [...] at least you have the self-determination to make your own community with your valued friends if the current one gets too bad. with the former, you have no escape"
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date = 2023-03-10T07:20:00-06:00
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source = "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/109999188302928268"
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forums weren't that bad actually
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here on the World Wide Web you have two threats: capitalist enclosure, and toxic community. and honestly the latter is probably less bad, because at least you have the self-determination to make your own community with your valued friends if the current one gets too bad. with the former, you have no escape.
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in short, "social media" is a failed model invented by capitalists. what we need is a "social web". focus on people, not "content".
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want to entertain yourself? that's fine, there can be media hubs and curators for that. but your communications and your media consumption should be separate.
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not really, current fedi is broken in a similar way to social media, because it tries to copy social media instead of leaning into the Web. instead of focusing on the purity of the model and data, then having different presentations on top of that. look how we don't even have a proper "thread" or "conversation". we place undue importance on replies for grouping. instead of treating the reply tree as a structure *within* the conversation, we treat it *as* the conversation. and more |