eh, cohost & counter social & mastadon are pretty usable for propaganda too, in different ways, and bailing him out isn't gonna make people wanna keep using the website. that said we might see more legislation to try and kill off smaller sites
My analysis of fediverse is that it actually makes it MUCH harder for fringe opinions to penetrate spaces and MUCH easier for fringe information to be marginalised because of the way every single ideological bubble will just defederate with anything that isn't conforming to their ideological circlejerk. Not to defend centralised corporate media here but it's a massive concern I have about all of it.
Imagine reddit but every subreddit defederates with every other subreddit that they don't like and blocks participation from everyone and anyone from that space.
:yea: yeah... although, that said, the lack of economically centralised power is a plus, randoms running their silly little instances are gonna be less attatched to global capital than the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and/or Elon Musk. and also imo all big websites are basically fucked long term no matter how you cut it - moderation alienated from the places that they moderate will inevitably end up at odds with those places. might just be nostalgic cope on my part though, I miss there being more than 3 websites... (part of why I'm on here lol)
eh, cohost & counter social & mastadon are pretty usable for propaganda too, in different ways, and bailing him out isn't gonna make people wanna keep using the website. that said we might see more legislation to try and kill off smaller sites
My analysis of fediverse is that it actually makes it MUCH harder for fringe opinions to penetrate spaces and MUCH easier for fringe information to be marginalised because of the way every single ideological bubble will just defederate with anything that isn't conforming to their ideological circlejerk. Not to defend centralised corporate media here but it's a massive concern I have about all of it.
Imagine reddit but every subreddit defederates with every other subreddit that they don't like and blocks participation from everyone and anyone from that space.
:yea: yeah... although, that said, the lack of economically centralised power is a plus, randoms running their silly little instances are gonna be less attatched to global capital than the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and/or Elon Musk. and also imo all big websites are basically fucked long term no matter how you cut it - moderation alienated from the places that they moderate will inevitably end up at odds with those places. might just be nostalgic cope on my part though, I miss there being more than 3 websites... (part of why I'm on here lol)
I have never even heard of any of those, and I'm online as fuck. Twitter is basically a house-hold name (as cringe as that sounds)