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28/05/2019 from
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us
Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?
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indieweb
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we’ve grown wary of the so-called attention econom... But we also benefit from social media and hesitate to disengage from it completely... a loose collective of developers and techno-utopians ... the IndieWeb ... developing their own social-media platforms... preserve what’s good about social media while jettisoning what’s bad...
Facebook and Instagram encourage conformism because it makes your data easier to process and monetize... you’re a worker in a data factory ... the solution promoted by the IndieWeb...: own your own servers. ... a tricky technical problem: decentralization... POSSE... “publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere” encourages competition and innovation while allowing users to vote with their feet...
When social-media servers aren’t controlled by a small number of massive public companies, the incentive to exploit users diminishes... homegrown, community-oriented feel [vs] anxious narcissism ... helps solve the problem of content moderation....
IndieWeb lacks the carefully engineered addictiveness ... remove the addiction, and you might lose the users.
Facebook and Instagram encourage conformism because it makes your data easier to process and monetize... you’re a worker in a data factory ... the solution promoted by the IndieWeb...: own your own servers. ... a tricky technical problem: decentralization... POSSE... “publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere” encourages competition and innovation while allowing users to vote with their feet...
When social-media servers aren’t controlled by a small number of massive public companies, the incentive to exploit users diminishes... homegrown, community-oriented feel [vs] anxious narcissism ... helps solve the problem of content moderation....
IndieWeb lacks the carefully engineered addictiveness ... remove the addiction, and you might lose the users.
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