It's a shame its brand was destroyed to make a quick buck. Most blue checks I see nowadays are spam and trolls

I expect to see a rise in use of small scale networks/groups, ideally self hosted in some way, where participants are all known to each other in real life. For years now I've been seeing people migrate to WhatsApp groups largely for this reason (I know each of you, this conversation is not public, and we're not going to have some weird bot or 'curator' turn up to shill, steal, or spray slop around).

Really curious to know about any co-housing/living communities or the like that have found a useful solution along the lines of a calendar/notification/chat/messaging/file sharing platform that isn't some mashup of big tech offerings.

Who's offering real life communities a 'social platform in a box'?

Eventually I'll have no option but to re-subscribe to paid content, while there's a trace of quality and objectiveness left.

Sow disinformation to drive crowds, zero in and silence dissidents. 1984 is served.

I just wish that Zuck, Thiel, Sergei, Elon, Jack and all the richest-beyond-any-practical-sense are remembered in history as the ones that did most of the work for this to happen.

Hell, I am no Stallman fan, but I would take his view over the crowd any day.

Whereas Square used AI to prevent fraud, Twitter used AI to create an algorithmic hate machine. Any remaining authentic sigmal is overwhelmed by the noise of bots, trolls, agitprop, memes, and socketpuppets.

I agree it will get worse, but to suggest that this is a future problem is wrong.

This feels more like a next 12 months problem to me at current pace

I feel it might be more unsettling than when I read it ~5 years ago.

I mean literally having wildly varying beliefs about what is true or not. Especially political beliefs, each group believes that the other groups or their leaders are incompetent and corrupt. This goes for splits inside of a country but also in regards to other countries.

Technology is an amplifier. But it shouldn't be blamed for problems that humans create due to the nature of humanity and the poor organization of society and poor integration of information.