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https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/09/describing-a-problem-isnt-an-explanation/
@deejoe Ask me questions so I can rewrite this to be less turgid: https://instagov.com/wiki/Structural_overview
Wonderful, thanks.
Got the links opened. Will do a little more with them now, but am on mobile so mostly in a click-or-short-reply mode.
@woozle Yeah, the problem is that social media are great at building communities, but it's not at all discriminating in what kinds of communities it builds.
@pzmyers I understand why the big media corps aren't interested; the profit motive will always put quantity over quality. revenue over value.
I think the reason open-source coders of federated social media platforms (not that there are a lot of these) also haven't been interested has to do with a combination of (a) not-invented-here mental habit and (b) lack of coding resources (hours) leading to a very tight triage situation.
If only Mastodon supported plugins.
@pzmyers This is generally what's wrong with social media. The problem is that there's very little social accountability for bad behavior.
I've been proposing a solution to this for many years now, but as far as I can tell none of the major social media players actually care about solving the problem (because it would cost them eyeballs) and even the open-source/fediverse coders don't seem particularly interested.
Working on it myself when I have time. :-/