Social media isn’t a network, it’s a set of siloed attention farms.
That’s a very important distinction to make IMO. We’ve treated Big Tech like they’re the stewards of the internet for way too long. Facebook, Twitter, Discord, TikTok… those are the villains eating everyone’s attention.
Lemmy isn’t perfect, but it’s definitely more in the bucket of the “old internet” and more network like. I love it! And I love were chatting. But a tiny fraction of the population is engaging like that these days.
Social media isn’t a network, it’s a set of siloed attention farms.
That’s a very important distinction to make IMO. We’ve treated Big Tech like they’re the stewards of the internet for way too long. Facebook, Twitter, Discord, TikTok… those are the villains eating everyone’s attention.
Lemmy isn’t perfect, but it’s definitely more in the bucket of the “old internet” and more network like. I love it! And I love were chatting. But a tiny fraction of the population is engaging like that these days.
Lemmy is social media. It all depends on the algorithms
Posts/comments aren’t sorted and hidden by a ML model optimizing for engagement though.
That’s the key. That’s what makes the environments so toxic and addictive.
Maybe sorting by upvotes isn’t perfect, but it’s still leagues away.
Agreed. You know a social media site is crap if you can’t sort chronologically
That means they intentionally stripped away that basic function because they want to control what content you see