Hi! I wanted to let y'all know about a social media design I've been thinking about recently and how I think it might better combat misinformation compared to the social media we're familiar with (both traditional and fediverse).

Digital gardens are basically personal wikis that have pages that are public to all. You might also think of it as a blog, but where every post is being actively maintained rather than just posted and forgotten about. So a page on hexbear might get updated to talk about some new information or personal feelings you have about the site, rather than that change going to a new separate page/post.

The idea for the social media platform is one where everyone can maintain a digital garden, and follow friends' digital gardens. Instead of liking or sharing posts, you're just seeing the changes other people make to their pages, and you can decide to take those changes (or a part of them) into your own, possibly adding your own insight. These pages could be over topics, specific events, etc. - them being personal let's people decide what organizational structure works best for them. I think this would cause a certain number of effects that lead to a healthier social media platform and users:

• adding friction to sharing/liking makes it so you're more likely to critically engage with an idea before aiding it's spread
• ideas are iterated upon as they spread, and essentially the entire network can build the topic to a very complete (perhaps even nuanced) form
• corrections to misinformation will notify people essentially along the same channels, aiding their ability to be seen by all who saw the original incorrect information
• while ideas and movements can spread, the original post and post creator do not, preventing things like unintentional and unconsensual vitality of a "nobody" (because going viral sucks and brings with it lots of harassment)
• it could literally just be updating your pages and a notifications list. No algorithmic timeline, no algorithmic suppression, no doomscrolling.

In general I think such a platform would also democratize influence a bit, rather than letting it consolidate in the hands of a few "influencers". And the end result is a very cool network of information that I think can be really useful as a personal reference, something to direct others to, etc.

What are y'all's thoughts?