Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE...
by zizee on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:51PM
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It would be useful to categorise "social media" into "publish to strangers" vs "interact with individuals in private". Apparently these are both social media, but they are very different use-cases.
Most of the apps you mentioned are focussed on that second category, whereas (I believe) the GP was talking about the first category.
Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE...
by em-bee on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:18PM
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well, at least whatsapp, wechat, youtube and even telegram are trying to get into the first category. i ignore the respective features. in my case i eventually realized that i would waste to much time if i would try to follow all the posts pushed there, and it would also take to much effort to curate that content, so i decided to completely ignore it instead. but i am old, and my life experience helps me to stick to this. for young people this must be harder.
i agree that this distinction is important, but i am afraid it is a lost battle, and as we criticize the negative effects of the first category of social media we need to also point out how social media can be useful when it is in the second category.
i am on whatsapp, wechat, telegram, matrix, signal, sms, irc, email, even discord...
on each of these services i am mostly in contact with real humans that i met in person.
i am in a few groups mostly made out of these same people, but also some groups where i never met anyone. i am not on facebook, mastodon or ex-twitter or any service that tries to feed me with stuff instead of just giving me a timeline of all messages shared. even on youtube i follow the channels of my choice and mostly ignore recommendations except to discover other interesting channels.
i don't see any of that going away. therefore i don't see anything changing for me