Interesting shifts in my social feeds lately. When I joined Fediverse initially I saw lots of different posts. As in folks writing stuff or sharing pics. The past month or two I just see a lot of reshares now instead. When I visit profiles to find new people to follow, I now just see a lot of reshares, especially of screenshots of memes from outside networks like X, Tiktok, etc.

This seems bad. I came here to get away from content mills; it's starting to look like legacy social media around here 😬😞 Think before you reshare, don't be some engagement farm's mouthpiece
#Fediverse #BoostDiet #LegacySocial

I'm going on a #BoostDiet for a while.

What is that?

A focus on posting or replying with my own thoughts, rather than just silently resharing stuff, and to gather contacts whose posts don't just predominantly consist of reshares/boosts.

Why?

As I've settled into Fediverse, I noticed that over time more of my feeds consist of reshares. Those reshares are often:
- content that originated from walled garden social sites
- content that has the fingerprint of forced labor content mills & state actor disinfo operations
- current events panic rather than current events problem solving

Basically the kind of stuff i wanted to leave behind from the legacy corporate social sites. I believe that making content, rather than just resharing existing content, strengthens and protects Fediverse. It decentralizes influence by filling it with more real engagement and a broader content surface, rather than concentrating viewership through vapid reshares of the same prolific content mills.

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