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.

#BoostDiet #Fediverse #LegacySocial #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Friendica #ActivityPub

Eerie realization ... I can actually tell -- at a glance -- which of my friends is doing their primary social media use through algorithmic platforms and which Friends are not. Yikes!

Friends in algorithm social platforms (#Bluesky, anything #Meta, #Tiktok) are all collectively talking about similar things in similar ways. These are personal Friends I know well, not bots or faux profiles. Their posts read as though the same topic is expressed cosplaying in their voice. The Friends who are using non algorithmic environments are each talking about totally different things. Or when they do discuss a current event, the substance of their commentary, and what aspect of it they're discussing, and the pace at which they discuss it, is more varied and flows much differently. It stands out sharply whenever I view my mixed bridge content feeds, where posts in my feed from multiple protocol bridges are side by side as I sift through.

This can't be a good thing. Makes me feel like the need to help ppl escape from misery profiteer social ecosystems is more urgent than it has ever been.

#ActivityPub #LegacySocial #BigTechWalkout2025 #Endof10 #NoKings #fediverseforfreedom #fosdem

> Elections stolen by #legacySocial and corporate influence way before the count even starts.

"Yeah, don't look at that. We have lots of fun distractions we know you'll love."

@jeffcliff
It would be good to know what this oppressive GEC stands for, but no matter.

Anyone who needed twitterBuyer, (memecoiner and #militaryContractor) to tell them that #Turdsite was (and still is) bad, has an IQ so low that they will not do anything with this new information.

As far as we know this information is doing nothing. Everyone on #legacySocial platforms is fine with giving up basic freedoms for #temporarySafety.

They are no better than most cattle.