I guess I’m glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn’t a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.
I guess I’m glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn’t a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.
Is it Social Media if there’s no algo? No one called IRC or old forums “social media” when they were at their heights.
It just wasn’t a term yet because it wasn’t popular. But yes, those were social media. IRC was a medium in which you could be social. I was there.
I was there too. It wasn’t a term because marketers didn’t invent the term yet. Key part, it was Marketers that invented the term. Marketers didn’t care before they found a way to use to to manipulate people. You can argue that those thing are “social media”, but not in anyway that makes social media a problem.
Or Usenet. Or BBSs. But one could argue they were all social media. I think the difference is the control that is being exerted by people in power. And that’s likely due to the audience size. It becomes an effective way to guide people’s ideas, decisions, etc. Facebook got there. Reddit got there. Lemmy could.
Who would be the ones to do it in lemmy? People are switching to federated options to guard against that.
It’s resistant for sure. But say one instance becomes dominant and controls most traffic? It’s still possible however unlikely.