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ljwritesI found Oh brave new internet, / that has such Nazis and MRAs in't! by DW contributor deborah interesting and informative. It's been filtering into the public consciousness for a while that the ways the major social media sites are structured are not good for us, individually or societally. Rather these design choices are good for the bottom lines of companies who want to keep users "engaged," i.e. spending as much time as possible on their platforms, and to mine their data for targeted ads. Can DW be an alternative? Is it just this platform's relative lack of popularity that keeps it relatively safe from bad actors? I know as part of my own Tumblr detox I've found DW and Mastodon to be calmer, saner places with better conversations overall and better organization in DW's case. Is that a viable way, or one of the ways, more people could go online? Deborah, I think wisely, left that question open while implying a partial conclusion. At the very least I think there's value in the internet becoming more diversified and people having more alternatives.
deborah interesting and informative. It's been filtering into the public consciousness for a while that the ways the major social media sites are structured are not good for us, individually or societally. Rather these design choices are good for the bottom lines of companies who want to keep users "engaged," i.e. spending as much time as possible on their platforms, and to mine their data for targeted ads. Can DW be an alternative? Is it just this platform's relative lack of popularity that keeps it relatively safe from bad actors? I know as part of my own Tumblr detox I've found DW and Mastodon to be calmer, saner places with better conversations overall and better organization in DW's case. Is that a viable way, or one of the ways, more people could go online? Deborah, I think wisely, left that question open while implying a partial conclusion. At the very least I think there's value in the internet becoming more diversified and people having more alternatives.
