Corporate social media with algorithms designed to make addicts out of users and force propaganda down their throats is different than decentralized social media where people have control of what they consume while they are on it.

Bring back social networks. No more algorithms. Only feed from people your personnaly add to your network, in the order they were posted.

Ah yes, the "gotcha" everyone loves to trot out. Except Lemmy is quite obviously not what anyone is talking about when they talk about the issues of social media.