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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
The market is rife for a new kind of social network, one that is secure, free of misinformation and bots, and community-driven. Not sure if Mastadon is the answer but I do have faith that the tech community can rally to put something next-generation together.
I am interested in Jack Dorsey's "Bluesky" technology which pivots from platform-adherence to content creation independence, and decentralizes social networking hosting.
Additionally, I think platforms need socially-responsible objectives. Particularly, industry self-regulation and standards implementation across platforms is long overdue. Here is an academic paper by Nina Brown at Syracuse University about the need for such industry regulation and what that might look like: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi...text=lawreview
I personally don't think there there is a silver bullet technology to solve all of the social media woes we endure today. It has to be a combination of things, and the will to 'do better' from users, corporations, governments, and institutions alike. |
I'm not sure how this can easily be solved. In the olden days we always had freedom of speech but what we didn't have was freedom of reach.
There was always the crazy arsehole in the town square yelling from his soap box but he would have limited reach and paranoid delusions and hate speech would not proliferate and be shared as easily.
At the same time, public discourse about important information was driving by journalists who had to earn their respect, had to abide by fairness doctrines in objective reporting, had editors and teams to ensure objectivity, etc. This is the golden age of investigative reporters and trusted news anchors . Your wacky aunt would tune into and trust Cronkite, Murrow, Brinkley, and Jennings versus some basement dwelling conspiracy theorist on her social media feed. Those malicious voices couldn't reach her to deceive her into believing all the objective journalists were peddling fake news.
With Twitter, you have to constantly police bots and then you get these idiots complaining that being fact-checked or banned is limiting their first amendment rights. I think to get to a socially responsible platform, you need to get back to the part where certain people have earned respect and trustworthiness and the community overall can overpower the voices of the nutjobs and scheming politicians rather than silence them.