Yeah, I know this does meet the technical definition of social media, but I think there is a distinction between the sites that really matters. It's really the Big Tech FB/Instagram/Reddit/TikTok/etc that are the problem, not your small "mom and pop" forum.
There are two main factors driving the distinction that I've considered:
- The Big Tech platforms have massive advertising, tracking, astroturfing, and psychological hacks that exploit their users.
- The biggest platforms have normies, and most people are just stupid and suck. If you transported all Reddit users to Phuks, we'd suffer from a whole bunch of new problems here that plague Reddit, for example.
Yeah, I know this does meet the technical definition of social media, but I think there is a distinction between the sites that really matters. It's really the Big Tech FB/Instagram/Reddit/TikTok/etc that are the problem, not your small "mom and pop" forum.
There are two main factors driving the distinction that I've considered:
1. The Big Tech platforms have massive advertising, tracking, astroturfing, and psychological hacks that exploit their users.
2. The biggest platforms have normies, and most people are just stupid and suck. If you transported all Reddit users to Phuks, we'd suffer from a whole bunch of new problems here that plague Reddit, for example.
Reason 78 why to get off social media.