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We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever? (www.wsj.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.

i think the fediverse might solve for a lot of this.

its still very early, the 'verse software space is still pretty wild-west, and there is no telling how 'the emojid masses' will take to the fediverse. That also assumes it can achieve sufficient momentum.

there would theoretically be enough diversity in the fediverse to account for many of those concerns. dont like bots? there are bot-free instances. hate ads? there are many self-sustaining , user-supported models.

not a given, but not outside the realm of possibility

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to "drive engagement" that I don't think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.

Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I've had on profit-driven social media sites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

i feel like gamification will become more pronounced as more applications allow for more expression of the full AP protocol.

i think youre wrong about fediverse implementation. lemmy is already pushing for downvotes everywhere, the 'bins expose 'reputation points'. gamification is somewhat inevitable as its a part of human nature, and seems to already be happening with or without 'commercial social media'

i agree with the relaxed feeling but i havent used those commercial sites (cept reddit) in decades, i cant really relate. the verse feels very early reddit-y to me, which is what i wanted.

... no ads, just people and links and nonsense, hooray!

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