Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoStudy: Social media probably can’t be fixedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down113
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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down3·8 months agoMeta 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
minus-squarechaosCruiser@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-28 months agoAmazon, Google and Microsoft would still be there, so the Internet seems to be suffering from a metastatic cancer at this point. Cutting off two revolting lumps helps, but the prognosis doesn’t look that great.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoNone 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.
minus-squarechaosCruiser@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThat’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.
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
Amazon, Google and Microsoft would still be there, so the Internet seems to be suffering from a metastatic cancer at this point. Cutting off two revolting lumps helps, but the prognosis doesn’t look that great.
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.
That’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.