Yeah, discourse feels more natural and less encumbered by obscure algorithms and SEO. Not having a karma score to protect helps a lot too. No one here cares about your karma which encourages echo chambers of parroted jokes and approved opinions. FAANG/SV controlled platforms are constantly sanitized for advertisers and in the case of YouTube, you have AI-assisted auto-censoring and comment shadowbanning so I constantly feel there like walking on eggshells. I remember this wasn’t the case back in 2014, it’s all caused by recent antifeatures introduced later on into the platform.
By contrast, here in Fedi you have no obscure algorithms nor shadowbans and you constantly interact with people from different instances which can have vastly different points of view and ethos than yours so you naturally get to see a genuine, diverse and vibrant space of conversations.
As for astroturfing and bots, these seem like things that come naturally to massive platforms once they reach the mainstream. To be honest this place feels a little vulnerable to these if moderation can’t catch up. Luckily lemmy.world’s owner is a trusted party with experience running Fediverse instances.
Yeah, discourse feels more natural and less encumbered by obscure algorithms and SEO. Not having a karma score to protect helps a lot too. No one here cares about your karma which encourages echo chambers of parroted jokes and approved opinions. FAANG/SV controlled platforms are constantly sanitized for advertisers and in the case of YouTube, you have AI-assisted auto-censoring and comment shadowbanning so I constantly feel there like walking on eggshells. I remember this wasn’t the case back in 2014, it’s all caused by recent antifeatures introduced later on into the platform.
By contrast, here in Fedi you have no obscure algorithms nor shadowbans and you constantly interact with people from different instances which can have vastly different points of view and ethos than yours so you naturally get to see a genuine, diverse and vibrant space of conversations.
As for astroturfing and bots, these seem like things that come naturally to massive platforms once they reach the mainstream. To be honest this place feels a little vulnerable to these if moderation can’t catch up. Luckily lemmy.world’s owner is a trusted party with experience running Fediverse instances.