For those who hate social media, how would you reform it?

[Celso Bin Portiolli]

I know forum culture and social media culture is very different, and I've been thinking about how long time users would go about fixing the trash fire nature of Xitter and the likes.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I'd get rid of it.

 

[BirdUp]

Nuke it all.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Get rid of it entirely. Social media feeds on our worst aspects (greed, envy, pride, etc).

 

[Hamsteroid]

Shut it down and return the practice of pen pals.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I don't hate social media, I just dislike a particular flavour of retards, which granted, infest social media.

It's shit because people are that, that's the root cause, and in order to fix it, you have to fix society. If you want people to be able to post their opinions, and at the same time you don't want an infestation of retardation & propaganda and people believing that propaganda, you have to make people more educated/smarter/honest/empathetic/etc somehow.

If you only/mainly have shit, any """fix""" will be like putting a band-aid on it, you don't want that because the stench is still there, what you need is to not have shit in the first place.

 

[Internet Wizard]

Kill TikTok entirely along with the reels bullshit on every other app. I have a custom apk that disables it on Instagram (I basically just use it for stories, messages and occasionally post viewing) and it has genuinely improved my live hundredfold.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

i would deport all illegal facebook accounts then build a firewall and make them pay for it

 

[Celso Bin Portiolli]

i would deport all illegal facebook accounts then build a firewall and make them pay for it

I opened up my Facebook to try business networking (it's still sort of popular in Brazil) and I am done with the amount of pajeet bots sending friend requests.

 

[grump]

some neckbeard at the very start comes up with an inherently robust easy to use decentralized censorship resistant privacy friendly successor to Web 1.0. In short a Fediverse done right at beginning and that becomes the dominant social media network. Not the corporate networks.

Web 1.0 which essentially served as the social media of the 90s and early 2000s totally ruled compared to Web 2.0 ie the corporate internet. And major part of the reason was that it was much more decentralized. Megacorps had not yet completed their consolidation of the internet. Once they did you have what we have right now where the 'Internet' for all its promise of infinite possibilities is mostly just a handfull of corporate playpens almost everyone is herded into. Once they had control they started censoring and banning mostly conservatives and edgelords and the internet and the wider world degenerated into PC groupthink and you have no choice but to go along with it because there is nowhere else to go. Elon partially broke their monopoly but its still a very suboptimal position.

Another less appreciated aspect is you no longer have people designing their own crazy custom websites showing off their personality, its all the same corporate mush now. People used to express themselves on the internet in a far wider palette than than they do now.

People above say to abolish social media entirely but while it is a plague in some sense thats impossible so the more realistic option is that at least you allow for more diversity of thought.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

Allow a choice between anonymity and real identity so one can use it in a Web 1.0 fashion, more freedom of speech, more incentives for people to post high quality content instead of slop, and more customization of the sites' layouts, so you can make it look more like a real website instead of the bland corpo aesthetic.

 

[Shart Attack]

Social media are among the worst things humanity has ever created, and their complete destruction would be a massive benefit to society.

Barring that, at least IP ban India, China, and every single college campus in the world.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Just ban all children and gooners. It's that easy

 

[Preacher ✝]

Restore anonymity, remove censorship, and block all connections from India or Israel.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Make its use punishable by death. We really do not get anything positive from any form of social media.

 

[Beastie]

Social media can not be reformed. There is only one solution.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Revert it back to pre-web 2.0 levels. Like the internet renaissance of the 2000s.

 

[MrTroll]

I'd find out whatever happened to Tom from Myspace and put him in charge of everything.

 

[rel=alternate]

I personally am in the camp of those who "hate social media", but not in the sense where I wish I could fix it and I would like them more. I don't really care for it to be removed either. It's not my thing, never will be.

Where I do start to care it is when it comes to kids. Because it rots their brain more than anything before.

Every generation had their own modern evil. Whether it be the TV, the computer, the console etc... But this is complete garbage accessible at your finger tips. There is no value to be gained. That's not mentioning the actual risks for kids to meet predators or be brainwashed.

I wish kids could get banned from social medias, but that's another can of worms, because we're probably not going to like the solution. I don't even see this being enforced in a way where they won't create a 4kidz only version either. Because kids are big targets for advertisers, and these dollars are raining on everybody in a position to make this stop in the first place.

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

Sometimes i get carried away and forget the fact most things on the internet are not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, let the normies be, far away from me