Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.It’s never not going to be funny that after years of hype about crypto-metaverse-subscriptions disrupting web2 incumbents, the backstop to Twitter’s sudden implosion was volunteers recreating Usenet with RSS.
How many years of yellow peril “TikTok AI feeds will steal our children if we don’t surveillance capitalism hard enough” did we have to endure before it turns out a reverse chron is maybe the least bad option for giving us social media that looks more like Wikipedia and less like 4Chan.
Max@bkeegan Though the 4chan-like sections of the Fediverse *exist*. Don’t also underestimate the power of moderation and especially the power of labor. I think that’s the other lesson in this. Social media spent decades thinking labor didn’t “scale” and trying to replace labor with technology. The Fediverse remembered that decentralized labor scales with the network. (Just like Usenet and RSS.) The modern need is moderation tools that enhance labor efforts and not get in their way.
Max Riethmuller (TechLife)@max @bkeegan I got suspended for quoting Asterix "These Romans must be crazy" as hate speech. I asked admins of a group to delete a spambot that was using the profile name Troy Smith and spamming every thread and comment in the group with the same ad. I said "admins, please nuke this Troy spambot". Hate speech. Apparently I was calling for the nuclear annilation of the people of Troy. Yet you can't get an actual hate speech commented successfully reported for love nor money.