Skimming through that article it seems it has its own set of fairly big problems?

None of the large public social networks are anywhere close to what I’d actually want to use tbh - most of them are just full of division, hate, petty squabbles or all sorts of other unpleasantness, and the few bits of good doesn’t make up for all the bad. I can’t in good conscience be on those platforms in any meaningful way because they don’t do enough to penalise or discourage bad behaviour. In fact they often encourage it - because they know that gets them the most traffic

I know it’s a tough thing to do but I feel there is a way where there can be a decent balance of freedom of speech and a push for more enlightened, kinder social interactions, but it’s very unlikely that any of the current SNs will be the ones who bring it about. It’s definitely something I hope to tackle one day! (Right now my focus is on our new community platform.)

So right now I don’t really feel the need to be on any SN- I’m more than happy to be part of more community focused online spaces like this one, and if I ever need to I can use my blog for any public posts or statements. It’s certainly a happier, less depressing path …one that doesn’t contribute to the ills of the world or take it a step closer to annihilation o_O

_{Sorry for the rant!}

I completely agree with you, Aston =)
I remember a time (a long ago) when SNs were a bit cooler, before this huge “influencers wave” where everybody wants to be famous, and before this huge “fake news trend”.
Those were, let’s say, more innocent days.
There were nice communities back then, where people would share interesting knowledge about different topics. But suddenly things became so weird.
I guess some people realized the power the SN’s had to influence others, and started to use that for evil purposes.

I still use Instagram, but I try to filter the content as much as possible, because it’s so boring to see all those people trying to show a reality that we know is not true =~

Anyway, I noticed that I’ve been visiting DevTalk quite often these days xD
I wish we had more traffic here =)

Going to try to sign up to Mastodon, and hoping to find a lot of technical stuff there soon.