Metafilter is from the late 90’s and still isn’t overrun with bots and other bullshit and it’s still widely used by many professionals.
You know the difference? They didn’t prioritize explosive cancer-like growth and instead prioritized community and thus it’s still a great site with plenty of people, plenty of discussion, and almost no “viruses,” to use your analogy.
The 90’s was also when there were thousands of different websites and not everything was centralized on Facebook/Reddit/Xitter. We’re simply reverting to that better version of the internet.
Also things like transparent moderation logs exist in the fediverse, so there’s more controls the users have to see if their admins/mods are actually working in their interests. Everything on the centralized platforms is a blind “trust us.”
Metafilter is from the late 90’s and still isn’t overrun with bots and other bullshit and it’s still widely used by many professionals.
You know the difference? They didn’t prioritize explosive cancer-like growth and instead prioritized community and thus it’s still a great site with plenty of people, plenty of discussion, and almost no “viruses,” to use your analogy.
The 90’s was also when there were thousands of different websites and not everything was centralized on Facebook/Reddit/Xitter. We’re simply reverting to that better version of the internet.
Also things like transparent moderation logs exist in the fediverse, so there’s more controls the users have to see if their admins/mods are actually working in their interests. Everything on the centralized platforms is a blind “trust us.”