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1. paulajohnson · 1790610990 · focus · HN ↗

   Tell me again about how we need to keep children off social media....

   1. nekusar · 1790612689 · focus · HN ↗

      The problem is for-profit corporate social media.

      Fediverse has never hired thousands of psychologists to gamify everything.

      Fediverse hasn't added adverts to sell really seedy or blatantly illegal products.

      Fediverse hasn't engaged in genocide in Myanmar or Rohinga, or anywhere else.

      Fediverse doesn't run mass psychology experiments on unsuspecting users.

      But Facebook/Meta, X, and others definitely have.

      Edit: for those of you who -1'ed it, where am I wrong?

      1. astrange · 1790615351 · focus · HN ↗

         > Fediverse doesn't run mass psychology experiments on unsuspecting users.

         Only thing I ever hear about Mastodon is that you can't say or do anything without random other servers disconnecting you or random commenters yelling at you to add trigger warnings because you posted a picture of food. So I would say that being emotionally abused by German Linux users is in fact a mass psychology experiment.

         1. pavo-etc · 1790647126 · focus · HN ↗

            I have been using Mastodon since 2019 across multiple instances. The things you are talking about happen very rarely in actual use, I've never once had a problem with any of them. The signal to noise ratio on mastodon is higher than any other competing platform I've used.

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