(translated from Catalan by Alain Gertrand)
You too will leave X, Instagram and all the other big platforms that, for now, seem like irreplaceable components of our lives. The golden age of these social networks is behind us. And yes, that means for you, too.
The 2.0 boom lasted a good ten yea
the author might be right about mastodon, but they’re wrong about bluesky; it’s significant financial backing guarantees that it will eventually enshittify in at least one of the ways that the author wrote. so much so that even it’s primary creator, dorsey, left once he realized that me made another mistake in bluesky as he did with twitter.
Dorsey is a massive dick but he was absolutely correct that Bluesky isn’t actually very decentralized and was making similar mistakes as Twitter. He and I just massively disagree as to what those “similar mistakes” were. I think the mistakes they are making are about competent moderation, including growing too fast and too large for competent moderation, Dorsey hated that there was moderation at all.
mastodon is probably following the same path; it’s not very decentralized either and probably the first thing to enshittify on the fediverse. (assuming other fediverse islands haven’t already with things like bots on .world).
I think Pixelfed is beating Mastodon at that. The main instance basically had moderation as a late late afterthought and the massive influx of people and lack of moderation has made the main Pixelfed instance kind of horrible, from what I understand. @lori@hackers.town has been discussing it extensively lately.
Also, beyond bots, we have whole ass crpytoscam instances like realbitcoin.cash where suspiciously almost all of the accounts are from that instance, all created their accounts on the same day, and all commented on the same big thread on the same day.
FOSS developers are going to have to start developing roadblocks to this kind of behavior.
But once one has learned to leave one social network without any worry then doing it again is actually easy.
you’d think so, like i did; but i’m learning that it’s easy to get caught up in the moment when it comes to social media.
i’ve been learning the lessons of social media enshittification since the day’s of icq & bbs, some like the author described; but there’s always some new thing/feature/enticement to draw you in further and you end up learning that lesson the hard way all over again, but from a different angle/perspective/approach.