social media (ala Twitter, Mastodon etc) is not about friends and family. it is about democratizing mass media. nobody complains that the talking heads don't know all the people watching them on TV. it's about the best info, ideas and art spreading via word of mouth (now on steroids).
groups are for friends and family. maybe if we had those here already, people wouldn't try to lump it all together.
these corps want you to do everything in public where they can run ads. fuck them and ads, but participating in public is very important as I said above.
it's just a different thing from the separate bubbles we want for close family, extended family, diff friend groups, work, orgs etc. people have sms chains, FB groups, Discord servers etc.
FOSS decentralized social can let us do both much better and they will overlap, but we need to think thru the distinctions.
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