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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I’d argue that social media isn’t inherently bad. It’s social media that promotes instant gratification that is bad. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok - their purpose is to make you consume more content, quicker, so they can harvest data on your likes and dislikes and stop you from thinking too hard, which makes you less likely to spend money. Social media should be about letting people talk to each other, not about glorification of celebrities.

    And the former purpose is beneficial for youth, while the latter makes youths into victims.




  • I’d beg to differ, honestly. I’d love to see the fediverse take off. We desperately need an alternative to centralised everything where the actions of one company which almost always is profit-motivated can control everything you see and use your data for their own purposes.

    I get what you mean by how a smaller community is nice to have, though. But that’s also a benefit of the fediverse - you have a small community of your own with it’s own culture, while not losing the connection to what’s happening outside. And there’s some cross-over that makes it easier to talk to others who aren’t in your own community, without needing to adapt to their culture first.