I don't really care if you think that someone has appropriated a term you think they don't deserve. I do care and support any movement that has the goal of detoxifying the social media scene.
Technology cannot detoxify social media. Only ethics can, and we humans have very little in the way of tools to maintain a solid basis of ethics, besides ourselves.
Let's domesticate social media.
To me it’s so unnecessary to sell the project as being run by the inventors of the social web, when the mission to decentralise control over social networks is brilliant on its own. I still don’t think any elected officials in Denmark should be on social networks where they don’t control the policies. I don’t agree with some of the outrageous stuff some of our less professional right wing politicians post on social media which gets them banned, but the very fact that a foreign tech company can chose to ban elected officials is just wrong. It would be much better if our Government ran something like a fediverse instance where they would control it and still reach the wider social network. I frankly think any news organisation should run their own server instances as well.
That is a good mission. I’ll support anyone who works for it, but I also think it’s stupid to over present yourself with false claims.