Social Media: The God That Failed

[bune]

to quote a down-tweet:

its not the conspiracy theories or propaganda that will get you kicked off social media - its the copyright violations.

[Bi_3]

https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Fo ... 815126.php

[BurtReynolds]

Decentralized social media has been gaining steam lately. I'm all for decentralization, but I don't understand how decentralization addresses any of the problems he mentions in the thread.
Thread:

[Biff Pocoroba]

If the impeachment has shown me anything on social media it's that I have wack a doos for friends on both sides.
My personal favorite post was from a Trump supporter who thought it was unfair that people can make fun of [Trump's] skin color. What if it is a skin condition instead of a choice. If anyone made rude remarks about Obama's skin color all hell would break loose".

[McParadigm]

Lord

[McParadigm]

Facebook’s own researchers determined that the system as designed encourages the growth of extremism by (among other things) consistently promoting content to you that is a rhetorical escalation of whatever political content and claims you gravitate to in general. Facebook leadership responded by shelving the research and shutting down efforts to de-escalate the conspiracy/hate promotion.

[BurtReynolds]

What convenient timing...

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2 ... ssion=true

Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules

Also this. At least they aren't trying to hide their bullshit anymore:

[Mickey]

Rip to hundreds of TikTok teens

[E.H. Ruddock]

They won't ban it

[Mickey]

But it would be so funny if they did.

[BurtReynolds]

They unpersoned Molyneux this week. I figure they'll periodically remove a few far right people here and there until the election (but not all at once), then sometime after they'll switch to removing some leftists.

It's all part of the plan.

[Bammer]

Facebook’s own researchers determined that the system as designed encourages the growth of extremism by (among other things) consistently promoting content to you that is a rhetorical escalation of whatever political content and claims you gravitate to in general. Facebook leadership responded by shelving the research and shutting down efforts to de-escalate the conspiracy/hate promotion.

That totally makes sense and reinforces that people are fucking stupid.

[Bi_3]

Decentralized social media has been gaining steam lately. I'm all for decentralization, but I don't understand how decentralization addresses any of the problems he mentions in the thread.
Thread:

There is no such thing as "decentralized" in the sense he is implying.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I still laugh at that gorka post on the top of this page

[Bi_3]

We’ve recently jumped onto the Ring/Neighbors app... ummm... I can very much see how this drives a bigoted fear of crime.

[BurtReynolds]

A lot of big Twitter accounts got hacked today. Wouldn't mind seeing those DMs.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gate ... -scam/amp/

[BurtReynolds]

We're free from blue checkmark tyranny!

[Norah]

I'm seeing blue check mark accounts tweeting right now though.

[Jammer XCI]

A lot of big Twitter accounts got hacked today. Wouldn't mind seeing those DMs.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gate ... -scam/amp/

I blame Elliot Alderson and Fuck Society. It was only a matter of time before he relapsed.

[BurtReynolds]

I'm seeing blue check mark accounts tweeting right now though.

I'm not seeing any recent ones, but I haven't looked too hard.