I think that 2022 social media is, at its root, an unsolvable problem.

"The resources to implement technical, legal, and ethical systems scalable to a global userbase"

and

"Algorithmic behaviour modification as advertising"

are, almost inherently, two sides of the same coin.

https://twitter.com/basilbrushoff/status/1595031772047331328

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The teething pains of even the best-funded Mastodon instances, and the consequences on the rest of the fediverse, suggest that user donations aren't yet working as a feasible funding model to implement effective Trust&Safety.

https://twitter.com/basilbrushoff/status/1595032478166577153

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The T&S/DMCA/TOS issues already well-documented at Hive, Cohost, and the other corporate platforms suggest that a new entrant trying to build a similar platform will meet an equally vertical regulatory and ethical learning curve.


https://twitter.com/basilbrushoff/status/1595033259460526080

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This fact is why Twitter -and especially Facebook- have to behave like a "walled garden". The mechanisms for interacting safely with the rest of the internet are primitive at best. It has to be an ecosystem inside an ecosystem.

https://twitter.com/basilbrushoff/status/1595035686163296257

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I wish I could end this thread with a solution, an idea, for how it could work.

But as I said at the beginning, everything I see suggests that one doesn't (and maybe can't) exist.

https://twitter.com/basilbrushoff/status/1595036420196171783