Just cause lots of people call something X, doesnt mean its X.

Otherwise Trump would be a literal god. And web forums would actually be social media.

First of all, Don’t blatantly lie about the very thing you are linking to. It is not listed as social media.

They simply say some people (mostly idiots) refer to it as social media.

So thats already points on you for intentionally and willfully misrepresenting information.

Also the entire article is bunk cause it calls Mozilla and Minecraft social media. Which is stupid. Because Mozilla is a fucking company that makes a browser, and Minecraft is a goddamn game.

Second of all, You can wrongly refer to something as social media all you want.

I can write Fuck You on a brick and throw it through your window, and just because I Call it Macaroni refer to it as social media, doesnt magically make it social media.

I mean if people can figure out bot accounts and make lists of them just by looking at them, I’m pretty sure the companies that see 25000 accounts all connect from the same IP address can figure it out.

Its a webforum, not a social media.

Social media is places that revolve around shit in your real life no one cares about. Facebook, Instagram,Tiktok,Etc.

and a large part of that is the up/down vote systems, and other gamifications of human interaction.

And they’ve spread out of social media into many other website types.

All it does is extremify human interaction and is a major component in why we’re at the point we are right now with right wing extremism and fascism on the rise.

Get rid of these systems, and let people just communicate with eachother without having to appeal to a hive mind to tell people who gave up thinking if somethings good or bad based on votes/reactions/etc

No it wouldnt. It’d be a .001% reduction in users.

If you want social media to become a ghost town, ban bots/AI

Psychopaths naturally rise to the top in environments like large corporations, because of their ability to manipulate people and not give a fuck about hurting others.

I’m not even a mechanic and I can tell you that no car company thinks about repairability.

Hell, just replacing a consumable like the battery can be a major chore that requires far more disassembly than anyone with a functional braincell would consider appropriate on some cars.