Researchers at Penn State and Jinan University discovered that excessive use of social media for COVID-19 health information is related to both depression and secondary trauma.
As the Fediverse grows it will become more like other big social media. At least it is an open protocol and the smart people working on the code can figure out how to filter the useless stuff.
The great thing about being an open protocol is that anybody can fork a client and add any new moderation functions or change the content suggestion model. I think this is the main advantage a distributed system has to the centralised systems we see now. The user can choose what client to use and therefore how the social network data is presented to them.
As the Fediverse grows it will become more like other big social media. At least it is an open protocol and the smart people working on the code can figure out how to filter the useless stuff.
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The great thing about being an open protocol is that anybody can fork a client and add any new moderation functions or change the content suggestion model. I think this is the main advantage a distributed system has to the centralised systems we see now. The user can choose what client to use and therefore how the social network data is presented to them.