DoomsdaysCWLol. No mention of #Mastodon at all. We all know that the #Fediverse is the way #SocialMedia should be! Defederated and no #corporate control! Also, if one gets overwhelmed from Doom and Gloom over here, #CuratedLists are the way to go. When I want to know what's going on with the climate, I look at what meteorologists and climate scientists are posting. If I want to gaze at artwork, I have a list of artists and photographers. Just saying. Use hashtags, filter hashtags, follow accounts that are informative or fun or whatever YOU want to look at and/or engage with.
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair? [Join the Fediverse!]
Jennifer Ouellette – May 7, 2026
Excerpt: "Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the partisan echo chambers, the concentration of influence among a small group of elite users (attention inequality), and the amplification of the most extreme divisive voices. He wasn’t optimistic about social media’s future.
"Törnberg’s research showed that, while numerous platform-level intervention strategies have been proposed to combat these issues, none are likely to be effective. And it’s not the fault of much-hated algorithms, non-chronological feeds, or our human proclivity for seeking out negativity. Rather, the dynamics that give rise to all those negative outcomes are structurally embedded in the very architecture of social media. So we’re probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change those dynamics."
Read more:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/rip-social-media-what-comes-next-is-messy/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/85ohA
#Algorithms #ToxicFeedbackLoops #Bots #ControlYourFeed #CorporateSocialMediaSucks
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