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There must be another way, one where we can stay online without being trapped in toxic social networks

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RSS, Email, Signal, iMessages and RCS, AT Protocol and Mastodon. What else does one need? Feature complete.

I don't think theres a way to end toxicity and spam in social networks without also ending anonymity.

The past decade has shown that having your name attached to your words online does not reduce toxicity.

If you look you can even find research arriving at the conclusion that non-anonymous posts tend to be more toxic.

I suspected that somebody might read what I wrote and interpret it as "attaching your name automatically reduces the toxicity of social networks".

If you intend to be understood, the first thing you should do when you think someone misunderstood you is clarify your position. Simply implying your words were misinterpreted and not saying anything else is poor communication.

I was perfectly clear.

Right right, that’s why your post was downvoted to grey and the other people responding also understood it the same way you claim to be wrong but still refuse to clarify.

Suit yourself. I gave you ample open opportunity to provide context and let you expand on your point. If you instead refuse and prefer to shove your hand in the sand, that’s your prerogative. It would’ve taken you fewer words to clarify what you see as misconceptions than to be stubborn.

I hope whatever’s bothering will pass.

I'm on Dreamwidth. I have regular conversations with a variety of people who I've known for years, many of whom I have no idea what their real identity is. There is almost no spam, because the site owners take spam seriously, and also because you get total control over what you see.

Invite only (and you invite based on past reputation, interviews, and friends-of-friends)

The internet is decentralized, which is another way to say lacking in meta-incentive capabilities (e.g. cannot resist incentives for long, unable to influence or modify the set of incentives being applied to it), which means it will always fall prey to the dumbest race-to-the-bottom traps.

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