Social Media's Crisis and the Decentralized Solution | HackerNoon

Social mеdia's dеclinе into chaos, with hatе, liеs, and misinformation, posеs a challеngе: how to balancе cеnsorship and an absеncе of monitoring.

Nicely written post about the potential of the fediverse.

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That was a good read. Albeit a bit "heroic" (sorry if that sounds weird English is not my native language).

I personally think Elon Musk acquiring Twitter and turning into X (a.k.a Elon's Ego Masturbation center) was pretty good for us.
I wonder if the ideal of advanced filtering works in practice with current open source social media platforms.
- I haven't tried it out yet, but based on
  
  https://join-lemmy.org/news/2021-09-03_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.12.0._User_and_Community_blocking,_lean_federation,_and_a_whole_lot_more
  
  some options should be already available.