Most people would not use these platforms if they knew the true extent of how the platforms disadvantage people who are not deemed "elite". It would also reduce the ad revenue the platforms make from unknown people seeking to elevate their social status. Social sites are healthier and more fair, when all accounts have equal post visibility across the platform (which is usually the case when they start, but slowly declines as they mature).
The main conflict in social media is profit versus ethics... The platform costs a lot to develop, promote, and maintain... That is why these platforms often mislead users on their capabilities for social elevation. In reality, the platforms do nothing now in order to help users to be visible to new audiences of people... It is mostly users creating controversy, using bots, faking celebrity, or paying to promote themselves that increases their popularity on social platforms. There are reampant cases of accounts with mostly fake followers everywhere, the platforms do nothing to stop fakery because it only enhances their deceitful ideals that everyman can succeed on the platform. Reducing overhead for running the platform is a big key to ensuring that fairness can be upheld... Cloud hosting cost is increasing at wild rates... It's crazy how that is happening when technology costs generally decrease over time for infrastructure...
And also citing how most host infrastructure now is trending
towards being 100% virtual.
Creating a better social site means constant vigilance to assure fairness and equality, keeping the community smaller or thoughtfully segmented and more focused around individual topics, genres, or niches and creating channels for each of those that let users subscribe and unsub...
It pretty much boils down to something similar to Reddit I guess, but better though out... Without all the management corruption, bad UI, and oversimplified/overapplied moderation and spam/mod bots.
It is hard to maintain a huge site like Twitter with all the potential for liability, a new system of accountability for user accounts needs to be developed, while still maintaining a proper degree of anonymity... There are also rules like COPA and others that create huge complexities, but maintaining account anonymity kind of helps that, because e.g. - if the platform does not ask for a user's name and age in any way, there is no record of that user's real name and age stored on the platform... Unlike a site like Facebook, that catalogues every aspect of a user's personal ID and activity.
The main conflict in social media is profit versus ethics... The platform costs a lot to develop, promote, and maintain... That is why these platforms often mislead users on their capabilities for social elevation. In reality, the platforms do nothing now in order to help users to be visible to new audiences of people... It is mostly users creating controversy, using bots, faking celebrity, or paying to promote themselves that increases their popularity on social platforms. There are reampant cases of accounts with mostly fake followers everywhere, the platforms do nothing to stop fakery because it only enhances their deceitful ideals that everyman can succeed on the platform. Reducing overhead for running the platform is a big key to ensuring that fairness can be upheld... Cloud hosting cost is increasing at wild rates... It's crazy how that is happening when technology costs generally decrease over time for infrastructure... And also citing how most host infrastructure now is trending towards being 100% virtual.
Creating a better social site means constant vigilance to assure fairness and equality, keeping the community smaller or thoughtfully segmented and more focused around individual topics, genres, or niches and creating channels for each of those that let users subscribe and unsub...
It pretty much boils down to something similar to Reddit I guess, but better though out... Without all the management corruption, bad UI, and oversimplified/overapplied moderation and spam/mod bots.
It is hard to maintain a huge site like Twitter with all the potential for liability, a new system of accountability for user accounts needs to be developed, while still maintaining a proper degree of anonymity... There are also rules like COPA and others that create huge complexities, but maintaining account anonymity kind of helps that, because e.g. - if the platform does not ask for a user's name and age in any way, there is no record of that user's real name and age stored on the platform... Unlike a site like Facebook, that catalogues every aspect of a user's personal ID and activity.