I mean we could try that, we could also try lopping the heads off of billionaire tech Bros. I mean that sounds fun too.
Social media was so much better when it was posts by people I follow in reverse chronological order.
But the engagement numbers must always increase so they made an algorithm.
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That’s basically what Reddit was and now Lemmy is. It’s the best model and I don’t see any reason why Lemmy can’t be the forever home for people who prefer this reverse chronological feed style!
Bluesky is the same, i essentially only use the “latest from follows” tab, which is just posts from people you follow in chronological order. So much better than whatever garbage the big ones tried to feed me until i quit.
One thing I found about Bluesky is that the ‘Discover’ feed is actually very trainable. It’s easy to fill it up with politics, or art, or anything that you’ve been liking, commenting on and following. Mine started with mostly art and interesting people, then after one too many socio-political hot takes and follows of politically charged accounts, it went very political. So I made the effort to ‘like’ and follow more art and interesting content again and fixed it.
Personally, I enjoyed that feed while I was there. And wherever I saw people complaining about how awful it is, I just thought “it’s a reflection of what you’ve been liking and following, buddy…”
Bluesky will suffer from enshittification. It might take a while, but it will happen.
Lemmy isn’t perfect, but maybe it’ll be more robust.
Don’t know. I’d rather read a book these days anyway.
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Or stop using them entirely.
The only way to stop them is to abolish the systems and institutions that enable their existence in the first place, and
eatingremoving them from society (unless they agree to give up their ill gotten power and resources, of course. As if).Anything else is a distraction created by those maintaining said systems and institutions (which includes the governing bodies of all nation states, as well as organisations like the EU*, as noble as the idea is in theory, and in practice in the minds of those who created it, but it is after all an economic treaty, which is upholding an economy system and the status quo) all to buy themselves more time to pillage, hoard, and manipulate society for their personal gain.
*As a brit I feel compelled to say that I’m pro EU under our current system, since our shitty government(s) must have someone to answer to (because it sure doesn’t answer to the people), but I’m fully aware that it is at the end of the day a neoliberal institution that is there to maintain the status quo, not change anything fundamental to better society.
