My hope is that this decision along with their other decision to start populating timelines with AI-generated content—as if that’s the point of a social media platform—will help more people realise that it’s time to abandon these digital cancers and get back to a more sane way to interact with the web and to connect with others.
I share Manu’s hope. My struggle is knowing where to point to, or even go myself, for “better” social media. I prefer Mastodon, but Bluesky has the momentum, and wish I could stand up a forum people would actually use.
When it comes to the actual changes Meta is going through—it’s a disaster that shouldn’t surprise anyone.