The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls.
The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls.
theconversation.com The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls
The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26805695
You’ve probably noticed lately that a lot of people are trying out alternatives to the big social media networks X, Instagram and Facebook. For example, after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and started allowing far more disinformation and hateful content on the site, renamed X, advertisers and users started backing away. More recently, Meta’s decision to roll back hate speech rules has prompted many people to consider leaving Instagram and Facebook.
