Post #3246870
2025-03-21 01:16 UTC
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @ntnsndr@social.coop It depends what you mean by social media.
The agora enabled Athenian democracy.
Coffeehouses and salons fueled the rise of Enlightenment republicanism.
Early social networks aided the Arab Spring.
But once powerful figure out how to centralize those platforms, they become counter-democratic.
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@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org 2025-03-21 01:31
@ntnsndr@social.coop I guess I’m not yet convinced that it is only “centralization” that is the problem…or to put it differently, clearly central features of what we’ve had (attention economy driven algorithmic amplification) have been bad, but I’m not sure that even those aspects are neutralised that there doesn’t remain more risk than benefit - at least given where we have arrived now…