If you want to do something about it … step one is to stop using corporate social media
Once you stop hearing, watching, listening to constant propaganda and social manipulation … then you’ll have time to think for yourself and to actually want to do meaningful things to change yourself and the world around you.
It’s not just social media. It’s main stream media, which is mostly (if not completely) owned by billionaires who manipulate what we see.
The thing is, if everyone (or at least a large enough majority of everyone) left corporate social media, they’d likely end up bringing the shills, astroturfers, and other bad actors with them.
You could also say that we ditch MSM, but there are so many “independent” “news” sites that peddle worse garbage than MSM.
The thing is that these bad actors don’t play by any rules or sense of decorum. Most people who spread misinformation are not “evil” people (there are those that I’d say are genuinely evil, but most people ignorantly parrot the talking heads of their choice because they don’t know any better).
The fediverse is not the bastion of truth everyone wants it to be. It has its fair share of problems too. The difference is that the fediverse kitchen is much bigger, and there are many more cooks who have the opportunity to become men-in-the-middle of the information we see.
If you want to do something about it … step one is to stop using corporate social media
Once you stop hearing, watching, listening to constant propaganda and social manipulation … then you’ll have time to think for yourself and to actually want to do meaningful things to change yourself and the world around you.
It’s not just social media. It’s main stream media, which is mostly (if not completely) owned by billionaires who manipulate what we see.
The thing is, if everyone (or at least a large enough majority of everyone) left corporate social media, they’d likely end up bringing the shills, astroturfers, and other bad actors with them.
You could also say that we ditch MSM, but there are so many “independent” “news” sites that peddle worse garbage than MSM.
The thing is that these bad actors don’t play by any rules or sense of decorum. Most people who spread misinformation are not “evil” people (there are those that I’d say are genuinely evil, but most people ignorantly parrot the talking heads of their choice because they don’t know any better).
The fediverse is not the bastion of truth everyone wants it to be. It has its fair share of problems too. The difference is that the fediverse kitchen is much bigger, and there are many more cooks who have the opportunity to become men-in-the-middle of the information we see.