#herdmentality — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, the wisdom of the modern age: 🤡 If you're not quite sure what the cloud is, don't worry, just blindly follow the herd and slap a Cloudflare sticker on it! Because nothing says "tech-savvy" like #outsourcing your brain to a content network that promises to do all the thinking for you. 🧠✨
https://justfuckingusecloudflare.com #cloudcomputing #herdmentality #techsavvy #digitalwisdom #contentnetwork #HackerNews #ngated

Stuck on Big Tech vs. Big China, America Overlooks the Real Social Media Revolution Happening Elsewhere

The Fediverse, a network of decentralized social media platforms, thrives in Europe and Canada, promoting privacy and user control in contrast to U.S. corporate giants. Factors like European regulations, public funding, and anti-Big Tech sentiment contribute to its success, while the U.S. struggles with corporate dominance and lack of privacy laws, lagging behind in digital innovation.

https://stakeholderssgv.wpcomstaging.com/2025/02/03/us-missing-out-on-decentralized-web/

Stuck on Big Tech vs. Big China, America Overlooks the Real Social Media Revolution Happening Elsewhere

The Fediverse, a network of decentralized social media platforms, thrives in Europe and Canada, promoting privacy and user control in contrast to U.S. corporate giants. Factors like European regulations, public funding, and anti-Big Tech sentiment contribute to its success, while the U.S. struggles with corporate dominance and lack of privacy laws, lagging behind in digital innovation.

https://stakeholderssgv.wpcomstaging.com/2025/02/03/us-missing-out-on-decentralized-web/

@douglasmeehan
One thing that we need to be mindful of is some things that we're trained to think are good, like being able to immedialey see how popular a post is by glancing below the post at the Like and Boost amounts, are #toxic for a #community in the long-term.

They encourage both #botFarms and #herdMentality.

That's why for many years #Fediverse softwares would not show such numbers by default. Instead opting for <BLANK>, 1, or 1+.

In 2022, #Mastodon broke this tradition.
@ntnsndr

Report finds that almost half of the #celebrity's #turdsite followers are fake.

#OREALLY

Try 80%.

This is why we say #MastodonApp should **not** show the #popularity of #toots until the user opens them.

#darkPatterns #popularityModel #spam #spamAccounts #abuse #bots #botAccounts #influencerModel #herdMentality #confirmationBias