Comment on Shit is Getting Too Messy by breauna

breauna · 2/24/2025, 12:53:51 PM · permalink

Well... I guess you are seeing the early warning signs of how and why other social media platforms end up the way they do.  It really bums me out too.  I don't know why people feel the need to be that way (to me it shows a general dissatisfaction with life and with themselves) and I don't know the first thing about how to combat bots and throw away accounts.  You would probably need to have moderators (which if human would be biased, and if AI might make decisions without nuance).   
I would have hoped that the type of people that would bother to post here would be people like yourself and Peter (assuming this is Matt) but if I really had thought about it, I would have known that was delusional.  A couple of years ago I tried joining a new social media platform called UNIFYD since the guy who started it was at least awake and aware about the main issues going on in the world and since most of his followers seemed like the "New Age" crowd, I figured that it would be some friendly and eccentric hippy types on that platform.  I only posted a few times and all that happened was that I got invited to be friends by lots of middle aged and older men (I'm in my 40s so it's not creepy, just a little sad) and most of them were holding little dogs in their photo which was weird and most of the comments in almost any thread were ads.  There was very little interesting conversations or topics being discussed.  Since I'm a private person and was never on FB or Twitter because of that, I lost interest very quickly and haven't logged in for over a year now.  There was no one and nothing interesting going on there but I also didn't see a lot of trolls (they might be there now for all I know) so that was nice.  
This is a big endeavor for you to undertake.  I know it's your baby and that you want it to be successful.  I wish I were tech savvy and that I could give you some usable advice on this.  The only advice that I can muster is to find the programs that can detect bots and ignore the trolls.  If everyone just ignored the trolls then they will troll elsewhere.   
I hope this experiment goes well, it is a cool idea and the only reason I am even here is because I like your podcast and I wanted to be one of the first to come here and use this thing that you made for us.  I'm not a huge social media person so time will tell if I stay but I do want to support ideas like this.  
I hope the good will outweigh the bad, that's the best we can get in this life.

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