• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    It’s software that also serves as a method to distribute and access it. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter, the resulting pushback will be the same.

    The conclusion of the study was basically that the biggest players should enter the fediverse in order to use their capabilities to scan and police it.

    Wherever this shit exists, unwanted attention and scrutiny will follow, while the reputation of the platform will be harmed.

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        the people conducting the study obviously have absolutely no idea how federation and the fediverse in general work…

        How do you know that?

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            Where does the study suggest the Mastodon software’s ability to moderate, or that it’s responsible for content?

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                Did you read the actual study that this article refers to?

                Going by your lack of further response, I’m going to assume you didn’t, otherwise you’d have noticed that you’re wrong. I recommend reading the sources of articles in the future before commenting on them.

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      The conclusion of the study was basically that the biggest players should enter the fediverse in order to use their capabilities to scan and police it.

      Not sure if that would work as users are fleeing from those big players as they don’t prioritize the safety and needs of their users.

      The contradictory problem is that current major corporations prioritize money at all costs even at the expense of their users so their customer base flee to the next best service/product provider.

      People are currently abandoning Reddit and Twitter because their moderation system either doesn’t work or has underlying contradictions to what users are asking for.

      Facebook launched Threads and people only joined initially due to FOMO. With how transparent they are in harvesting user data at the expense of people’s privacy I think (and hope) that people are starting to realize that this is probably not in their best interests.

      I think what we’re seeing is evolutionary filtration of the web similar to natural ecosystems where the species with the highest ability to adapt that survives.

      Based off of one metric it seems that companies structured around proprietary software (zero-sum systems) are unsustainable. This is my untested observation however so this could be true currently but systemically wrong once examined and tested.

      So the idea that

      biggest players should enter the fediverse in order to use their capabilities to scan and police it.

      doesn’t seem to make the most logical sense as the foundation for those companies is untrustworthy and unsustainable.