but it does mean that people who do lots of blocking can’t easily participate in important “Town Hall” FB discussions without distorting the conversation. This seems like a Rock/Hard Place problem.
Hard place: leave Facebook for “Town Hall” discussions, so conversation isn’t distorted by bad FB tools. (For people who love using FB, this may have the benefit of incentivizing FB fixes the tools—whatever that means.)
ETA: also see this comment on what the incentives might be right now.
This sure is a potential solution, and I think “leave FB en masse” is part of the longterm set of tools I want to be considering. But it’s not going to solve the problems of people who are already using Facebook as their de-facto community hub, and I think it’s quite hard to “leave FB” in a way that actually makes your situation net-positive, due to inherent constraints on who-is-likely-to-build-a-good alternative, and how they get funding.
I’m not suggesting “leave FB en mass”. Just that groups switch for meetings where it’s important that these FB tools don’t scramble things, or communities where the problem has gotten really bad.
Hard place: leave Facebook for “Town Hall” discussions, so conversation isn’t distorted by bad FB tools. (For people who love using FB, this may have the benefit of incentivizing FB fixes the tools—whatever that means.)
ETA: also see this comment on what the incentives might be right now.
This sure is a potential solution, and I think “leave FB en masse” is part of the longterm set of tools I want to be considering. But it’s not going to solve the problems of people who are already using Facebook as their de-facto community hub, and I think it’s quite hard to “leave FB” in a way that actually makes your situation net-positive, due to inherent constraints on who-is-likely-to-build-a-good alternative, and how they get funding.
I’m not suggesting “leave FB en mass”. Just that groups switch for meetings where it’s important that these FB tools don’t scramble things, or communities where the problem has gotten really bad.