Social media sucks. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are designed to turn your precious free time into money. What we see as a nice way to stay in touch with our friends, in reality are just many hits of dopamine stimulating precise spots in your brain, leading to you spending more time on the platform consuming ads.
But what if I told you that there is a huge ad-free social network out there, not governed by a central authority, full of great people and completely free to use? This place is called the Fediverse. Well, it’s not really a place, it’s many places.
See the 6 reasons and a good short overview of what the Fediverse is about at https://slashdev.space/posts/2021-01-18-reasons-the-fediverse-is-better
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Right, and we see that nazis have a much harder time on Fediverse than on Twitter precisely because policy is driven democratically instead of being decided by a corporation. I think the other big aspect is that Fediverse is operated largely nonprofit and people running instances are able to make morally sound decisions because of that. Twitter refuses to ban nazis because that would negatively affect their bottom line, and any moral considerations are secondary to that.