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does social media serve any purpose whatsoever besides marketing and PR, virtue signalling and self promotion? honestly, what genuine use does something like twitter, mastodon, instagram etc have? No one even reads the shit other people post, they just use it to hook into their own material. fucking weird world we live in now, where 90% of the population appears to be a narcissist.
Modern traditional media is barely any better than social media these days anyway. It ranges from blatantly biased (e.g. Daily Mail, Telegraph) to the BBC which is only unbiased when it suits them. Just as you can't believe everything you read on the internet, you can't believe everything the BBC tells you either (assuming they even bother to tell you in the first place .... see their silence about Michelle Mone and PPE for example, the BBC were silent when the story was reported in full everywhere else).
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04jqjcj
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3qBWQnDDTFKhHQkwRv...
Interesting of course, but also a 6 month trial so whatever that means for commitment who knows. Couple questions: There's a .bbc TLD? Being used anywhere else? TIL Who is hosting their instance - is it a third-party or did they spin up their own?
The BBC (or other orgs) can also implement ActivityPub directly into their existing content management systems. Mastodon is great but you don't need to use it to participate in the federated ecosystem edit: it's also news to me that the BBC has their own TLD. This opens up a lot of potential that others don't have the privilege of.
Just implement a smaller Activity Pub server, no need for this Twitter clone stuff
Interesting of course, but also a 6 month trial so whatever that means for commitment who knows. Couple questions: There's a .bbc TLD? Being used anywhere else? TIL Who is hosting their instance - is it a third-party or did they spin up their own?
alpha.bbc, labs.bbc, nic.bbc, taster.bbc, the.bbc, to.bbc. nic.bbc is the only one that resolves, I'd asusme the rest are for internal R&D projects and QA links.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/820849/response/19688...
Ironic really given that most of the rest of the BBC dedicates hours of airtime every week to denigrating social media ([1][2] etc. etc.) because the BBC are so desperate to maintain relevance in a era where (shock horror) you can actually find good quality unbiased content on the internet. Modern traditional media is barely any better than social media these days anyway. It ranges from blatantly biased (e.g. Daily M…
I don't think this is the thread best suited for excreting your obvious pent-up anger
does social media serve any purpose whatsoever besides marketing and PR, virtue signalling and self promotion? honestly, what genuine use does something like twitter, mastodon, instagram etc have? No one even reads the shit other people post, they just use it to hook into their own material. fucking weird world we live in now, where 90% of the population appears to be a narcissist.
The problem you mention is a huge one with modern social media, and I think that it is exacerbated by the perverse incentives of engagement (ad) driven monetization. But there are healthier ways to use social media, and shifting data ownership away from a centralized oligopoly to a federated, decentralized model is a step in the right direction
Ironic really given that most of the rest of the BBC dedicates hours of airtime every week to denigrating social media ([1][2] etc. etc.) because the BBC are so desperate to maintain relevance in a era where (shock horror) you can actually find good quality unbiased content on the internet. Modern traditional media is barely any better than social media these days anyway. It ranges from blatantly biased (e.g. Daily M…
https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccij...
Ironic really given that most of the rest of the BBC dedicates hours of airtime every week to denigrating social media ([1][2] etc. etc.) because the BBC are so desperate to maintain relevance in a era where (shock horror) you can actually find good quality unbiased content on the internet. Modern traditional media is barely any better than social media these days anyway. It ranges from blatantly biased (e.g. Daily M…
I guess the difference is "old media" is held more accountable than "new media" when they lie.
Except they are not.
It is amazing, for example, how many times the BBC conveniently fails to correctly attribute an interviewee.
So many times somebody is given a generic job title when they are actually working for a political lobby organisation for example.