Given that there is actual evidence that the for-profit platforms intentionally are machiavellian in order to produce more-polarized, more-ideological, more-reactionary, more-violent, more-prejudiced, more-stampeding, more-reacting/nonthinking populations which can be more easily manipulated …
… I’d say that the evidence is right there.
In what the fediverse-platforms are not doing.
That there are griefers, machiavellians, sociopaths, etc, is the same in both categories.
But the software’s more trustworthy in the fediverse, in terms of its intent, see?
Given that there is actual evidence that the for-profit platforms intentionally are machiavellian in order to produce more-polarized, more-ideological, more-reactionary, more-violent, more-prejudiced, more-stampeding, more-reacting/nonthinking populations which can be more easily manipulated …
… I’d say that the evidence is right there.
In what the fediverse-platforms are not doing.
That there are griefers, machiavellians, sociopaths, etc, is the same in both categories.
But the software’s more trustworthy in the fediverse, in terms of its intent, see?
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