The problem with the modern commercial social media is that the features that originally made social media powerful are by now completely diluted.

On Meta platforms and X:

- No hashtags are used any more. They used to be used very loosely: Events, hobbies, FollowFridays, TGIF (Thank God it's Friday) etc...
- People no longer care to follow lots of people
- People do not recommend other people or content to follow
- We do not have genuine interactions, it's one way or controversial

This is because of the recommendation algorithms. They do the heavy lifting so the original features are becoming redundant. People think algorithms can be taught to do things, but in reality algorithm is abusing the power and subjecting and conditioning its users.

Hashtags used to be super useful back in the days on Twittter. The time can be pinpointed to the time before any recommendation algorithms.

This is why I'm so elated about the Fediverse and Mastodon. We bring back the free and natural social web.

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Algorithm #Algorithms

❞From the late 1940s Palestinians worked to set up basic classes and even makeshift schools in the camps. Refugees who had been teachers in Palestine resumed their lessons in exile, finding ways to teach without books, pens, or furniture. They organized classes in tents, vacant shelters, or outside in the open air; some Palestinians in Gaza’s Maghazi camp even started lessons in an old kitchen. Some assistance came from local charities and international aid workers, most notably the American Friends Service Committee in Gaza and the Red Cross elsewhere, but the refugees themselves were the driving force behind these initiatives. Indeed at the beginning of 1950, the only refugee school operating in Jordan was one that had been set up by refugee teachers in Karama camp. When UNRWA began operations in May 1950, it took charge of these efforts, rather than starting its educational provision from scratch.❝

https://cupblog.org/2023/08/23/why-palestinians-are-known-as-the-worlds-best-educated-refugeesanne-irfan/

@palestine