This is precisely correct.
"The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism & parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network w/ no central owner produces something closer to actual knowledge-sharing, because nobody profits from making it addictive."
https://boingboing.net/2026/03/06/why-mastodon-matters-now-more-than-its-creators-imagined.html
Tim Chambers
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