I don’t know how I feel about this but I heard once that these networks are battlefields for ideas and by leaving them you are basically retreating. I left once I might leave again. Today though on Facebook I saw an old friend post something negative about trump supporters. Which is rare with my old friends. I liked the post and left a comment of support. It only had 5 likes.
Some platforms might be redeemable and worth that fight, others I fear are beyond saving in their current form
There’s an algorithmic component here though that is going to make anything like that extremely uphill
Meta has to want to follow Musks as example explicitly. If he look at Musk, that’s a worrying trajectory. Elon Musk specifically boosts his own posts on Twitter over others even if you don’t follow him. He downranks anything with the word cisgender. He boosts accounts that pay him for checkmarks and has taken those checkmarks away from people who criticize him
Yeah it might be worthwhile to try to convince my friends and family to move to another platform instead. I’m still trying to figure out how to change their minds without burning bridges.
I don’t know how I feel about this but I heard once that these networks are battlefields for ideas and by leaving them you are basically retreating. I left once I might leave again. Today though on Facebook I saw an old friend post something negative about trump supporters. Which is rare with my old friends. I liked the post and left a comment of support. It only had 5 likes.
Some platforms might be redeemable and worth that fight, others I fear are beyond saving in their current form
There’s an algorithmic component here though that is going to make anything like that extremely uphill
Meta has to want to follow Musks as example explicitly. If he look at Musk, that’s a worrying trajectory. Elon Musk specifically boosts his own posts on Twitter over others even if you don’t follow him. He downranks anything with the word cisgender. He boosts accounts that pay him for checkmarks and has taken those checkmarks away from people who criticize him
Yeah it might be worthwhile to try to convince my friends and family to move to another platform instead. I’m still trying to figure out how to change their minds without burning bridges.