What if we made some open algorithms? Say trained AI that you control, rather than some corporation.
Train it to find stuff that's actually good, rather than good for the company. Or set it to give you lame stuff when you've been doomscrolling too long!
The stoners on Reddit got screwed - many of the weed subs got the banhammer, and the rest got NSFW'd because spez wants Reddit as G-rated as Disney for the IPO.
Push celebrities, influencers, and businesses to create their own instances, outside of Meta.
If they just use a Threads account, then the Fediverse gets made irrelevant. Along come the Three E's, and Meta walls up the garden and starts putting billboards up everywhere.
Celebrities, influencers, & businesses need to know that they can now have a social media presence that they own, rather than rent, where they can make the rules for the communities they host. It's good for them in that it keeps their Fediverse presence theirs, they get to call the shots and choose how their instance is set up.
Because if enough people have a strong Fediverse presence outside of Threads land, it'll make it much harder for Meta to pull the plug.
Depends on the celeb. Some are like you describe, some can have a bit more of an activist bent, like Cory Doctorow. It'll probably take some of the activist types to take that first leap.
Also, not just celebs, but businesses too. There's plenty that have a subreddit, or a Discord, and ideally, setting up a Lemmy or Mastodon instance will be just as easy.
The way to win the Meta war is to make sure people have enough of a reason to venture out of Meta land to come out.
Getting more celebs & businesses on their own instances may have the side effect of adding more moderator eyeballs to the discussions. If celebrities just ran an account on Threads, they're mostly at the mercy of Meta's staff and AI. If they host their own, they'll probably bring in someone to moderate as well. Some better than others, but it serves to distribute the moderation load a bit more and keeps more of that power away from Meta.
Oh yeah, look at the Twitster Fire when King Elon ordered those viewing limits. That was blocking cities, states, and federal agencies from communicating with the public. Sometimes in emergencies.
Yeah, governments are going to want their own instances for that reason.
Oh don't get me started on the sealioning from the bigots! "But we need to have more Valuable Discussion™ about my horseshit that's been debunked a million times already!"
Safe spaces for fascism. Spez let The_Donald and its imitators fester for years, thus turning Reddit into a de facto Nazi Bar. Thus years of harassing non-fascists & minorities, brigading, spouting bigotry, disinformation and toxicity while the admins yawned.
Yeah, it's hard enough to get blue voters to stay in those red shitholes. Why would any sane person who already lives in a blue state want to move to a red one?
Yep. Same reason why they won't just hang out at places like 4chan, Truth Social, etc.
The libruls they want to "own" are here. They're leaving Reddit because Reddit's going to become a Nazi bar, seeing that half the mods left, and the other have had their tools nerfed. When the libs are gone, they get bored.
I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump's account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.
It's a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.
I still have my Reddit account, but it's becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it's to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it's the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don't unless I have to.
What if we made some open algorithms? Say trained AI that you control, rather than some corporation.
Train it to find stuff that's actually good, rather than good for the company. Or set it to give you lame stuff when you've been doomscrolling too long!