What I want is a social network you have to pay for. Make it $2.50/month, and make everything order by 'created date' (ie no magic sorting algorithm). Then, every quarter after the hosting bills are paid put whatever's left into some sort of shares that each member owns (sort of like a co-op).
E2EE, Federation, self-hosting, open source, etc. are all great, but they don't really address the real reason social network sites are so toxic - We have to entirely remove the advertisers from the equation.
People would be far less likely to post or share dumb stuff if being banned means there's a risk of losing your 'equity' in the platform.
> People would be far less likely to post or share dumb stuff if being banned means there's a risk of losing your 'equity' in the platform.
Isn’t this like HN already? Also who will define what is “dumb” if even the community can be eventually polluted and biased? Would a moderator or owner decide this?
Careful, money and greed can pollute anything. I tend to find that content that is not profit motivated are often the most truthful- ex: whistleblowers
Why lump getting rid of the algorithm in with the other stuff? I don't use facebook but I use Youtube which also has a much ballyhooed algorithm. I've tried skipping their homepage (and thus skipping the algorithm) and just going to the list of videos posted by my subscribtions in what I presume is chronological order, and let's just say I usually find what I want more quickly the former way than the latter. I can only imagine it would be the same with a social network.
It turns out that even for channels I subscribe to the percentage of stuff they post that I want to see is pretty damn low, even lower than the "hit rate" of the algorithm which also isn't great. Now imagine a social network where you connect with people for reasons other than that you think you'd like what they post (you met them IRL and they asked you to add them, you want to talk, etc). An algorithm of some sort would be absolutely mandatory.
Being able to choose your algorithm, or even being able to replace it with one of your own or a 3rd party would be a welcome innovation here. I can see this happening on Mastodon, but not for ad revenue driven social networks.
This is effectively social.network. It’s powered by a decentralized autonomous organization called the Social DAO which is where username registration, governance, and economic incentives are coded. The goal is to change from an ad driven model to one that creates a better society for future generations.
E2EE, Federation, self-hosting, open source, etc. are all great, but they don't really address the real reason social network sites are so toxic - We have to entirely remove the advertisers from the equation.
People would be far less likely to post or share dumb stuff if being banned means there's a risk of losing your 'equity' in the platform.