Yep. All BIG social media is a problem, in my view. It's a fn cancer on our society.
There's much more reasons to make the switch from Meta/X and other corporate platforms to the free open-source
Fediverse.
My problem with Meta: mostly, my friends posts do not show up in my feed and after a year I go to their profile and see that they posted some stuff... they then think I've been ignoring them all the time, but that's because the feed is not shown chronologically.
IG and FB decide what content is shown, based on dodgy algorithms.
But there’s a solution at the end of my rant.
It has long been known that Meta manipulates the behaviour of their users and made them believe they have the freedom to post their opinion and are really connected to each other. But the opposite is true.
The lack of moderation on hate speech, algorithms that prioritize controversial discriminatory content (racism, LGBTQI-phobia,…), in order to get more outrage engagement leading to a wider spread of bad ideas. Invisible shadow banning censorship, echo chambers, reducing people’s reach, dividing people, pitting them against each other and so on.
The opposite of how a harmonious society should be.
More irritations: saturation of commercial advertisements in the feed, privacy issues, tiktokification by rewarding superficial video reels above quality photography. Half your feed full of fake AI posts to waste your time. And above all: you are the product, people don’t realize their private data is being sold and you don’t get a single penny.
You could stay indifferent and continue supporting all these things above… or you can be part of the SOLUTIONS BELOW!
Switch from the Metaverse and X to the Fediverse.
There’s free alternative platforms, community driven, no algorithmic manipulations, no ads, real privacy and data control, open-source, decentralized, no billionaires involved.
More authenticity, less social pressure.
Imagine we all make a move towards ethical technology and free ourselves from corporate surveillance. Think about apps like Bluesky, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and many more!
Wouldn't it be cool if we all moved there?
If we all slowly make the transition, as from next week? Or let us just try for a month and see what happens if Meta suddenly loses their grip on all of us? You don’t have to close your accounts, yet.
What’s your opinion about this? Would you do it?
I noticed Pixelfed is quite dead... However I found a few local people from my region shooting alternative photography... which I probably could find via IG aswel.
And as every start from zero, I'm thinking about uploading a bunch of my fav older photos over there too. But that takes time aswel.
While on IG (or TikTok of FB videos), there's too much fear of missing out, you get triggered to watch people's stories or short vids that are way too addictive, you open one and keep watching 10 others, wasting too much time and it's not good for your focus and concentration.
The fact that Pixelfed is still boring at the moment, is maybe better for the mental health. It won't keep your focus on it for that long.
But yeah, none of my friends is there (yet), but I'm always willing to learn to know new people to widen my horizon. Perhaps I should give it a bit time.
I'm currently taking a break this Februari on IG and others, see what the alternatives do instead on my daily habits.
What alternatives do you people use?