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Re:My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook ... by danjac on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:42AM (#29000276)
Maybe the ideal social network is no one big "social network", i.e. get rid of your Facebooks and Twitters and go back to small, decentralized, localized forums and interest groups running on independent, secure, open-source platforms that are easy for laypeople to set up, maintain and moderate.
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Re:My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook ... by swalsh on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:46AM (#29000312)
I think you need both. Small decentralized topic specific forums are important. But, without a larger community people tend to not realize the outside world may not share the same opinions. That leads to this tribalist attitude of hatred of "others".
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Re:My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook ... by Tainnor on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:54AM (#29000391)
I'm skeptical that seeing opposite viewpoints expressed by random people on the internet leads to shared understanding or less hatred.

If anything, research seems to indicate that tolerance to opposing viewpoints and revising of stereotypes comes from extended personal contact and having a shared sense of purpose, and that's difficult to achieve on the internet.

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