I agree that the Facebook format is fine. The real problem with them is the algorithms. Oh, and all the data harvesting, advertising, and now bots pretending to be real people? I guess everything else about Facebook is terrible except the format!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

When people say the fediverse is too confusing I think most of the time in the specific it is good and vital feedback (please let us continue to dismantle the ways in which we participate in systems of anti-accessibility without sometimes even being aware) but sometimes I think the viewpoint might have everything backwards in the beginning assumption that this hurdle, fundamentally an issue of education, has any easy, universal, infinitely scalable genuine solution like corporate social networks attempt to convince us exists and is just around the corner.

Why are we assuming any solution that can be "growth hacked" like a factorio factory is capable of preserving the values that motivated communities to adopt those tools in the first place?

Like, maybe it can, maybe it can't....

I think we need to educate people better that, as you humorously point out, that when we say "facebook" we are describing at least two seperate discrete things, the actual physical and legal business that we call "facebook" or "meta" and the form and format of facebook-like social media communities.

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You have really good insights about this, and it's a great question. I wish it weren't buried 5 levels deep in this thread, where few people may see it. Maybe you could write it up as a top level post on the Fediverse community?