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These are the most profitable and successful (and some say innovative) companies ever.

They can figure it out. It’s a will problem.

People have used the word “thread” on Twitter for at least a decade.

🧵(1/12) I’ll explain:

This is the same route they take when saying social media can’t be regulated. Small Businesses.

Be the community you want to lemmy.

Until they turn their gaze to it. I’m sure it’s trivial to block and monitor due to the federated/networked nature.

This is a weird response to the drone hysteria in New Jersey.

Fair enough.

The algorithm part is a sticky point for me, because it’s always been my contention that you could directly map most of the systemic issues of social media with the rise of engagement algorithms.

In other words, reverse chronological order is the only way to do healthy social media in my opinion. (Or maybe I should say, healthiest). Algorithms introduce too many pernicious incentives. They optimize everything around the worst things.

Most people love algorithms though. And it seems most people don’t want to trade algorithms away. A reason that many fall off mastodon is the lack of an algorithm.

I wouldn’t call reverse chronological order with blocks accounted for an algorithm.

Twitter didn’t always have an algorithm.

Mastodon does not have an algorithm. Or am I not being inclusive enough in my definition?