Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it

Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by skinkestek on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:20AM (#27730309)

> No one wants to pay directly for social media unlike in person experiences though so we have what we have.

For the longest time I paid for MeWe, hoping they'd introduce pseudonyms and become a non Google Google+.

I would actually have paid for Google+ too if they had kept it around.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by Grimm1 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @12:41PM (#27730912)

Why did you stop paying for MeWe? Just the lack of pseudonym introduction?

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by skinkestek on Monday July 05, 2021 @04:06AM (#27735621)

No, I never needed the paid features in the first place.

I only paid to support a good cause and in the hope that it would become a replacement for Google+.

After a year or two where they never responded to feedback I just gave up.

I don't need another place to worry about leaking my identity connected to deeply personal issues.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by CRConrad on Sunday July 04, 2021 @07:32PM (#27733469)

Either that, or perhaps the huge influx of far-right sympathizers.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by skinkestek on Monday July 05, 2021 @03:58AM (#27735577)

I saw no such influx but then again I was only into chili growing, general gardening, photography and that kind of stuff.

I'd like to discuss mental health issues as well but personally I don't feel like posting to ADHD or anything when my family or my boss or my future boss can trivially easy (two clicks, no mental gymnastics) go from my post there to my professional profile.

Besides, the term "far-right" is so utterly abused now that it doesn't mean anything except "people I don't like".

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by CRConrad on Monday July 05, 2021 @06:17PM (#27742322)

Well, good for you that you didn't see that. I, OTOH, definitely did.

And, hey, would you have been happier if I'd called them Nazis?

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by CRConrad on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:31AM (#27749884)

Replying to myself for technical reasons: People who bring up how Hitler and the Nazis were "actually Socialists"... are usually actually Nazis.

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