Can't?
I'm on Lemmy, am I not?
It CAN be fixed, the question if the will is there. We need to inform and teach more people
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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Most people don't know about this experience, probably aren't looking for this experience, or would not know how to interact with it. I know it sounds crazy, but Reddit still confuses many people. Lemmy's a different ball of similar wax.
They want the saccharine-coated dopamine-filled mass-produced low-effort meme cesspool that IG, TikTok, etc. all provide. They don't know they want more until they decide they're done with it and start to look. Until then, it's like showing hieroglyphs to an iguana.
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As long as people worship themselves (but also, paradoxically, require everyone's attention and approval all the time just to make it to the next day), it will continue being that way. For those who see it for what it is and are disgusted by it, we have Lemmy/discussion boards.
Using Bluesky as the non-algorithmic example is problematic - they still need to show high user engagement numbers for their VC owners. Mastodon do not have the same problems since on the contrary a Mastodon instance owner has an economic incentive in making sure spambots and troll factory accounts get closed down asap.
Sounds like it's time to delete it, then.
social media is what it's made to be. social media as we use it is flawed.
all of the platforms just do different colors of the same damn thing.
Social media will be fixed by - wait for it...
Now.
Done. Fixed it, you may thank me later.
Yours,
B-TR3E - the man who fixed social media
Hi it's still broken on my machine. I've tried turning it off and on again
