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Good. The death of corporate social media can't come soon enough.
Unfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners
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Wouldn't be too bad if they just host threads and abide by ActivityPub without getting hands on, but they clearly want to shape it how they want.
I have a feeling this could very well end up in similar fashion to g*gle talk and IRC. Let's hope it doesn't, but I don't have enough faith in large companies not trying to completely destroy the Fediverse for profit.
I would like to see more investment in informative media. Social media has been one of the best sources to get information about local events, news, and alerts.
Speaking from an American’s perspective, I would like to see federated networks organized similarly to the United States. There should be one main federal instance, then a sub instance for states, eventually down to micro instances for neighborhoods or zip codes.
My complaint about “corporate social media” has been its need to make money from advertising driven by engagement. This means I miss tons of posted information by family, friends, businesses, bands, restaurants, record shops, farmers markets, city council members, police departments, reporters, etc.
I still want to connect with these users but getting them on board with the fediverse is an uphill battle if they’re only in it for the memes. Creating a platform that makes some tangible sense to people, I think, would drive more adoption. If you want to connect with your city, join cityname.state.US.verse. This wouldn’t exclude the creation of other networks like I dunno… nestle.corp.verse or tiktok.social.verse.
Its non-hierarchial. That's a good thing