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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed (arstechnica.com)
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[–] TAG@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

If you read the article, the argument they are making is that you cannot fix social media by simply tweaking the algorithm. We need a new form of social media that is not just everyone screaming into the void for attention, which includes Lemmy, Mastodon, and other Fediverse platforms.