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@wjmaggos I may have misunderstoof what "the townsquare" is. I thought this was a reference to the town square forums we hold during elections. Is it some software im unaware of?

By the way I think i am very sympathetic to the point of the message, now that I understand it. Though I do have issue with the wording as I think it can divert from the real problem. Like you are 100% right there is an issue with the conversation being manipulated on facebook and other places but the algorithm is only a small part of the problem. The bigger problem is the bots engineered to manipulate people and make the public seem to have one opinion when it has another. Unfortunately the fediverse is **more** of a target for this not less and as such the problem is very much rampant, if not worse, on the fedi because the issue isnt the algorithm that prioritizes your feed (it can be part of it) but rather the masses of people that arent people, or the few people who are manipulating the narrative.

We had this exact problem on QOTO, a recognized and self proclaimed Nazi literally said they were going to manipulate the narrative against us by creating fake accounts and despite stating it in the open and even catching some of those accounts it still manipulated Eugene against us because of "optics" and caused retaliation... because of a recognized and known Nazi's manipulation of an open-system.

Sadly the problem is VERY much worse on the fedi.