To be fair, federated social media is a very different “beast”. I wouldn’t say that I want all social media to go away myself, but I think the idea of monopolistic ad-driven social media (what I now call corporate social media) is harmful to society, doesn’t scale well to the larger world and importantly doesn’t condone meaningful discussion. In that regard, I could say that I don’t want corporate social media or at least want that experience to be partly sandboxed.
That’s totally fair. That sort of nuance wasn’t there in what I replied to, though perhaps it was behind the comment. But I’ve also just seen many, many people over the years who think “social media” is whatever social platforms they don’t use, and the ones they do are “something else”.
To be fair, federated social media is a very different “beast”. I wouldn’t say that I want all social media to go away myself, but I think the idea of monopolistic ad-driven social media (what I now call corporate social media) is harmful to society, doesn’t scale well to the larger world and importantly doesn’t condone meaningful discussion. In that regard, I could say that I don’t want corporate social media or at least want that experience to be partly sandboxed.
That’s totally fair. That sort of nuance wasn’t there in what I replied to, though perhaps it was behind the comment. But I’ve also just seen many, many people over the years who think “social media” is whatever social platforms they don’t use, and the ones they do are “something else”.