Treedrake

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Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration in c/technology@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Treedrake@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm just waiting for some FOSS purist to find fault in this.

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Does the fediverse suffer from the same issues as centralized social media when it comes to mental health and the attention economy? (fedia.io)
 

A lot of people feel drawn to simple living or digital minimalism because they feel a constant need to be connected and stay up to date, and feel less and less in control because of the attention economy and how algorithms are developed to maximize your attention. While the fediverse might not work in the same exploitative way as centralised services does, there's still a feedback loop that keeps you coming back.

To what extent does the problems of the attention economy on the human mind plague the fediverse? Is replacing centralised services with Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed and Mastodon just opting for a "lesser evil" in a sense? What are your thoughts?

Why use MBin instead of Lemmy? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Treedrake@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for answering! Nothing against fedia, after all I'm posting from here, just asked out of curiosity.. would've been fun if the local magazines were somewhat more active. Though I guess there lies the fediverse's strength, of being able to post and read in this collection for example.

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Why use MBin instead of Lemmy? (fedia.io)
 

I actually started on Kbin.social, but then it got shut down, Kbin died and now fedia.io seems to be the largest one running MBin. I like the interface on MBin and I guess it's good to have a diverse fediverse with different services, but at the same time, why use mbin when everyone congregates on lemmy instances? The local magazines on fedia are for the most part, quite dead, when compared to lemmy collections. In the end I feel like there aren't enough people to go around to support many more services like MBin and Piefed.