Thread · 2 tweets · 23 Nov 2021

This came up at the Social Media as Crisis Discipline workshop. On first principles, you'd think that splitting the big social mosh pit into groups should help prevent misinfo, toxicity, polarisation — but when Facebook pushed for groups it was a train wreck.

I think that is likely because doing that with all the surrounding trappings of social media doesn't solve the problem: it just allows it to fester in hiding. I suspect that E2EE would suffer from similar problems.