Post #4052793
2026-07-24 03:19 UTC
@benpate@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop @thisismissem@hachyderm.io Our core tools are not bad, and it's not wrong that so many have started with "hey, I have an idea for this cool thing that'll solve my particular little nerdy problem" and set something out into the world. But the global digisphere is communication, which makes all tools relational. They become used in unexpected or unintended ways that can lead to harm, great or small, when we haven't considered whether the purpose meets the users' needs.
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-07-24 03:24
@benpate@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop @thisismissem@hachyderm.io Or worse ... the purpose ends up being corrupted to meet the needs of a MISuser. Only a tiny few of us have not experienced the abuses of corporate social media manipulation, which means most of us are wary of SOMEthing, with good cause from our past experiences. I don't think it's so much what our tools (products) would look like; I think it is that our greater community needs trust and reassurance that their safety is considered.