I don’t need to tell you that something is wrong with social media. Outside the United States, social media is fuelling real-world violence and empowering autocrats, often with much less oversight.) Here are three possible ways to rescue social media from the market-based pressures that got us here. But experimenting with more decentralised models could give social media users a sense that platforms represented their interests, rather than those of a faceless corporation. Making social graphs temporary, rather than preserving them forever by default, would undoubtedly be bad for most social networks’ business models.

Source: The Irish Times March 30, 2018 06:22 UTC