Sometimes, these companies" (big tech) "really are looking out for your interests. They have armies of moderators and security experts who block innumerable threats to your data, your identity, and your physical safety. But those companies will never block you from their own leadership: when your interests conflict with their plans, the fortress walls that keep bad guys out become prison walls that lock you in.
I know that this was a pretty popular article on the fediverse, but i just think its so well written.
What a well written paragraph. I love the analogy with fiddler on the roof as well. Subject matter is of course interesting to a denizen of AZ.
Feeling this. There’s always text and email but with it being less convenient not many will remember to keep it up. And pretty much all the other main social media are enshittening too.
I miss the days of forums. Reddit was and now Lemmy is the closest I can find to that
Not that i dislike Lemmy, (i like to think my usage speaks for itself), but i’ll be interested to see if there are other formats of social media that come out of this ‘not necessarily commercial’ space that weren’t attractive before. One i’m fairly interested in is Bonfire, the idea of circles of users, denoting different degrees of openness sounds useful.
For what it’s worth, there are plenty of active forums out there, they just tend to be topic specific and take either effort or familiarity to discover. There are a lot of good things about their design, especially anti-abuse features on some of them.