Electronic Frontier Foundation

Social media’s job is to show you posts from the people you follow, but social media’s business model is to charge news companies to reach their subscribers. That’s a bad deal for everyone (except the platforms’ owners!)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

To Save the News, We Need an End-to-End Web

This is part five of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here. Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here. Part four, about opening up app stores, is here. Download this whole series as a single PDF.Once, news...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jun 12, 2023 at 4:52pmWeb
Show threadOzzy🕯Jun 12, 2023
@eff pre Musk it was easy to find the dark side of Twitter but moderators attempted to deal with it.

With Musk Twitter has become a cesspit
News is a willing participant of that cesspit

for money or love?
Show threadGeneBeanJun 19, 2023
What @eff talks about here is why I now spend the majority of my social media hours on #Mastodon