Open Rights Group

Social media is an "unhealthy online environment" 🤒

The problem lies with the business model that underpins these monopolistic platforms: they promote ragebait to rake in the money.

ORG's @jim told BBC News what needs to be done:

✅ Competition
✅ User empowerment
✅ Decentralisation

Watch Now ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/xfGQA53TQ51qB4FPDFFH6p

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How can we detox social media?

PeerTube
Sep 3, 2025 at 1:35pmWeb
Show threadGuillotine Jones, FlâneurSep 3, 2025
@openrightsgroup
A PeerTube video about the problems with corporate-run social media and how to detoxify it?
That gets an automatic boost from me!
#SocialMedia #PeerTube #Fediverse
Show threadChewieSep 3, 2025

@Guillotine_Jones @openrightsgroup

And enough people are watching it at the same time that my client actually shared the stream with another client! 🥳

Show threadChewieSep 3, 2025

@Guillotine_Jones @openrightsgroup

I left my browser tab open on the finished video, and it's now 45MB uploaded.

This is the first time i've seen the p2p nature of peertube working - a lot of the videos I watch are old or niche, so i've never seen more upload than download until today.

Edit: typo

Show threadLightSep 3, 2025
@openrightsgroup @jim Fediverse suggests otherwise.
Show threadhappyborgSep 3, 2025

@openrightsgroup

Just tackling the feed algorithms would be a massive improvement and avoid the need for age verification overnight.

Instead governments follow the big tech lobby: aka money.

@jim