Hell if your just someone that wants a private place to upload dank memes and share with co-workers and nothing else under the Fediverse you can create your own 100% private instance.
I know but this is different. This is not social media. I wish the Fediverse and especially Mastodon stopped calling themselves social media because they are not one.
I really don’t know what of the Fediverse made you go “because assholes use it, it means the Fediverse likes it.”
I’m a supporter of the “the community is how its majority is” opinion and in this case the majority is questionable. Sure I can join an instance ran by people I support (not that there are any that I’m familiar with because all of them get bullied by the majority) but it’ll basically be just a group chat with additional features. A true social media should accept everyone who follows the rules imo. That way there can be a real conversation with different opinions. What the Fediverse is doing is just a natural version of Big Tech algorithms.
It is though? Mastodon is designed to work like twitter but without the bs bots, ads, and such.
That’s the thing of the Fediverse, the rules are defined by who runs the instance, so once again if there is a problem with an instance you can just pack up and move or even make your own instance with rules that you prefer.
What the Fediverse does is nothing like the Big Tech Algorithms. With Silicon Vally the algorithms is designed for getting as much engagement as possible (particularly with ad content as that’s what pays their bills) in the Fediverse the “algorithm” is entirely what you the user set up.
For me as an example I set to only get Lemmy posts from communities I am subscribed to and from newest to oldest. This means it doesn’t matter how trendy some post from “Chinastan” community (made up for explanation) is, I myself will not see it because I am not subscribed to said community.
I know but this is different. This is not social media. I wish the Fediverse and especially Mastodon stopped calling themselves social media because they are not one.
I’m a supporter of the “the community is how its majority is” opinion and in this case the majority is questionable. Sure I can join an instance ran by people I support (not that there are any that I’m familiar with because all of them get bullied by the majority) but it’ll basically be just a group chat with additional features. A true social media should accept everyone who follows the rules imo. That way there can be a real conversation with different opinions. What the Fediverse is doing is just a natural version of Big Tech algorithms.
It is though? Mastodon is designed to work like twitter but without the bs bots, ads, and such.
That’s the thing of the Fediverse, the rules are defined by who runs the instance, so once again if there is a problem with an instance you can just pack up and move or even make your own instance with rules that you prefer.
What the Fediverse does is nothing like the Big Tech Algorithms. With Silicon Vally the algorithms is designed for getting as much engagement as possible (particularly with ad content as that’s what pays their bills) in the Fediverse the “algorithm” is entirely what you the user set up.
For me as an example I set to only get Lemmy posts from communities I am subscribed to and from newest to oldest. This means it doesn’t matter how trendy some post from “Chinastan” community (made up for explanation) is, I myself will not see it because I am not subscribed to said community.