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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

submitted 5 days ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I mean, what if “we” just stop using various social media platforms all together? I remember the days when various people never really shared their opinions and beliefs about most topics to the general public. Maybe we should get back to face to face conversations about life topics.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It's unlikely it'll go back in the bottle, and that style of social media is capable of facilitating positive social change (Arab spring as one example) that may not have been possible without it.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The single example of a possible positive outcome? I remember when this happened, they made a big deal about it, however it may not have had that much of a positive effect. You know the void left to be filled with someone as bad or worse. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/middleeast/egypt-how-we-got-here/index.html

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Yes, it's unfortunate it didn't have a positive effect long term due to being coopted. :(

As people are going to continue to use twitter style websites until they fall out of fashion, I figure its best if that twitter-like is at least not controlled by people who can go rogue and do severe damage to society, such as what happened with twitter.

We realistically can't ban them, we can only mitigate the bad. Personally I don't use twitter style social media, only Lemmy.

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