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Social Media is broken. Can we fix it? (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most people agree that Social Media is broken and that we need to find new solutions. Max DeMarco embarked on a journey to find out more about a new invention called NOSTR. This is his documentary about that journey and his interview with key players.

I've actually been on Nostr myself a few months (and did my own video about it). As with most alternative networks, you see who you put in your feed.

Watch at https://youtu.be/aA-jiiepOrE

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which issue are they trying to solve? The censoring and control issue goes away with federated systems but there is the cost of having a running network. The corporate networks charge you the fee of personal info so it doesn't cost actually money.

In all honesty the biggest issue I see is that social media eventually leads to us seeing what most of society is really like... boring, bigoted and stupid. This exists everywhere, it's only that smaller networks like Lemmy just dont have the numbers to make those issues be so prominent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

... social media eventually leads to us seeing what most of society is really like… boring, bigoted and stupid.

Reminds me a little bit of Tragedy of the commons.

Which issue are they trying to solve?

Right? Stuff from the "old days" is still popular and usable. We can still email people, create private groups on WhatsApp/Signal/whatever to avoid algorithms, and subscribe to blogs by RSS (or email newsletter if unsupported, usually). In fact, it's never been easier.

many people have handheld computers in their pocket at all times
Signal et al. are free and the apps are great. Remember paying per message?
Mobile data plans are getting cheaper
Many independent email providers with very high reliability

Just delete Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, whatever and move on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I'd certainly see it still more like ActivityPub. Only different is there are no actual login servers. You get 8 default relay servers that help relay your messages, and there are over 200 I think. Nostr is a different way of doing ActivityPub, but your identity stays with you (not on a server). A week after I tried it, I did this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSyMCJlSwA trying to explain some of the differences and similarities (like I did before for Lemmy, Mastodon, etc).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure there are differences but my question was really about what the new problem they are trying to solve. The local storage of your identity seems to he that big thing and I wonder who was asking for this. Seems like more of a nuisance than anything else, having to manage that data yourself.