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>My take is that a social media used for critical information at the scale of Twitter should be managed by a non-profit organization whose goal is to create, scale and maintain the platform from a technical standpoint, but also to moderate its content by creating a committee composed by people from around the world, representative of all the users of the service, who would be entitled to edict its rules. Or, better not to have one entity monopolizing all users data, news, influence, and list goes on. Back in the day before social media, forums existed, each was specialized in a niche, politics, sure, you have that, oh you are interested in sports cars!? Great, have that forum, and so one. The good part is, we are getting to a full circle now and people realized (hopefully at least after the reality slaps from twitter/reddit) that’s better to have it the old way, forums, federated nodes, instances, you name it, that way it will prevent similar scenarios like Twitter one, where you make a social media, get crazy popular, then some rich dude buy it, rinse and repeat. So, I’m happy that mastodon (or similar) are taking over slowly, I’m also happy to see people aren’t fixated on twitter/Reddit as before, and I don’t think making a new “twitter” will bring back the old ways, I don’t think they are getting back ever, the generation who populated twitter/Reddit are the same who did it back in forums and they are leaving traditional social media, and the new generation have an attention span of a gold fish so platforms like tiktok are more appealing. |