Remember when “social media” was “social networking”?
What changed? That second word: media. It’s all about capturing your attention and selling you stuff.
Humans are social and want to connect with one another. That’s what makes the #fediverse special to me - authentic connection. We haven’t forgotten the social part.
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@andypiper The big tech platforms provide "social control media".
Some (like #Techrights) argue that Mastodon instances, and any other social application that allowa server side enforcing of codes of conduct, fall into that category. I would argue that the right to join a gated community is more "self control" than "social control", but I prefer self filtering over server filtering.
