wtjones t1_j12b6da wrote on December 21, 2022 at 3:37 AM

Reply to comment by Lord_Derp_The_2nd in Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by geoxol

You’re not going to get enough people subscribing without the juice. It’s gonna be the A&E model of social media. You’ll start out with An Evening at The Improv and Pulaski and end with Swamp People and Duck Dynasty because that’s what people want.

Social media gives people what they want. It’s peoples’ desires that are the problem.

SuperBeetle76 t1_j13a92m wrote on December 21, 2022 at 10:22 AM

I’m not buying that human nature is the problem. People have vulnerabilities that can be exploited by profit incentives, which is where you get algorithms that are engineered to pray on addictiveness and encourage unhappiness. Before social media got so profit driven social media was a lot nicer experience.

I wouldn’t mind a subscription model if it just connected me in ways that I wanted and didn’t try to engineer my experience to squeeze every cent out of me.

My skepticism says tho that you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.

a_can_of_solo t1_j13pchz wrote on December 21, 2022 at 1:15 PM

Meta social media doesn't give me what I want, the signal to noise is so high on Facebook and insta they're unusable.