Corporate Social Media is Junk Food
from Fediverse_Champion@lemm.ee to fediverse@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 17:58
https://lemm.ee/post/50025173

SocialMedia is part of your daily diet - so why not make it healthy?

Corporate platforms feed you ads, algorithms, and infinite scroll designed to keep you hooked on junk food. The #Fediverse is different:

✅ No ads, no algorithms ✅ Real communities run by real people ✅ Diverse cultures and positive content

Stop feeding on junk. Switch to something organic!

Source

An illustrated poster promoting healthier social media consumption, featuring a cartoon cat chef holding a covered dish. Key points include avoiding ads and algorithms, focusing on community networks, and encouraging the use of the Open Social Web. A pink donut with sprinkles is labeled junk food.

#fediverse

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veeesix@lemmy.ca on 17 Dec 18:06 next collapse

Bold of you to assume there is a healthy form of doom scrolling.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 18:10 next collapse

Its better than a donut, harump!

GamingChairModel@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 18:47 collapse

Exactly. To extend the junk food analogy, this is like making donuts from scratch in your own kitchen: customized to your preferences, maybe tastes better, but ultimately you’re still making a mess in your kitchen and eating unhealthy.

Stovetop@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 18:15 next collapse

Not gonna lie, I’d still love to eat that donut.

Should’ve used one of those photos of McDonald’s where they look at an ad for a menu item and then show a sad photo of the real thing.

wiki_me@lemmy.ml on 17 Dec 18:26 next collapse

I am someone who kinda tries to live a more healthy lifestyle, if somebody tells me there is something that is good for my health i expect some scientific research to provide evidence of that. the health industry does provide things that have no scientific evidence that they are effective (so called “big placebo” companies).

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 17 Dec 18:31 next collapse

Well moderated

🤣

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 17 Dec 18:43 next collapse

I’ve got news for you: Many people from other places don’t particularly like xenophiliacs treating them like zoo animals.

Many of those who do play along with it are trying to get something out of you. Shitty people exist everywhere.

can@sh.itjust.works on 17 Dec 20:11 collapse

Is this in response to the “diverse cultures” part?

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 17 Dec 20:49 collapse

Yes. You don’t actually get to explore other cultures, you just get a bastardized, commodified version of it. The commodification of cultures for global dissemination is destroying unique cultures around the globe. It’s a massive humanitarian crisis, but it gets a free pass in the eyes of the western public because they get to eat tasty food and make pithy comments online directed towards people they hate. Xenophilia is a cancer.

deafboy@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 23:13 next collapse

High quality positive content

It took 3 hours and we already got to gatekeeping culture.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 18 Dec 02:08 collapse

Believe it or not, some people actually like having more than a single mono-culture in the world. Everybody everywhere doesn’t actually want Lego and the Marvel Universe to dominate their own societies.

can@sh.itjust.works on 18 Dec 01:39 collapse

I recognize that issue but I don’t need necessarily read the example on OP, as exemplifying that.

Disclaimer: I’m a white North American (ergo no culture) so I’m open to discussing this further as I’d like to hear your experience.

m_f@midwest.social on 17 Dec 19:43 next collapse

TBH, I think this is a little counterproductive. It makes corporate social media seem like a delicious treat. Exhorting people to do the right thing like “eat your veggies” probably isn’t the best way to convince them. Something like this seems like a better comparison. Something bad for you and gross, but uses flashy marketing to convince you otherwise:

<img alt="" src="https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/7b7838e9-67ce-43e5-8514-713703164502.png">

LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works on 17 Dec 20:15 next collapse

I definitely don’t think, that federation is a cure for unhealthy social media. You can waste time here too.

MHLoppy@fedia.io on 17 Dec 22:18 next collapse

organic food for your brain

High quality, positive content boosts mental health

Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that's not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.

(as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)

can@sh.itjust.works on 18 Dec 01:24 collapse

Yeah, let’s be realistic here. No one is going to believe the fediverse is shining beacon of positivity on the internet and any one who might would be turned off by the reality they find.

And that reality is, this is the internet, and any venue with a large amount of people is going to have some issues. We should highlight how the fediverse approaches that differently (and positively) first and foremost.

Zorque@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 22:44 next collapse

You should cross post this to /c/propagandaposters

can@sh.itjust.works on 18 Dec 01:25 collapse

Friendly reminder that reddit-style community shorthand is less helpful here. Old habits die hard but on Lemmy communities require context of instance as well.

Edit: but agreed, this is very propaganda-like

can@sh.itjust.works on 18 Dec 00:14 next collapse

I agree with the issues others have raised but I also question directing people first to Mastodon?

Solumbran@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 00:28 next collapse

Organic food is a scam.

can@sh.itjust.works on 18 Dec 01:22 collapse

“organic” food

tamal3@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 01:29 next collapse

I wish my app would give an option to have pages rather than an infinite feed.

Nima@leminal.space on 18 Dec 03:58 collapse

i mean… a lot of the content on the fediverse is literally just lifted straight from the other “junk food” social media websites that were just named.

its just a federated experience. not a “healthy” one. I’m all for moving more people over to the fediverse but let’s maybe take it down a couple notches with the weird propaganda-esque ads?