# What about medium tech?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [June 22, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-medium-tech/313207 "2024-06-22T17:23:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-medium-tech/313207/1 "2024-06-22T17:23:05Z")

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I was at a conference this morning that was discussing big tech’s role in fueling online polarization. My assumption is that it _has_ played a role - I’m old enough to be able to compare the pre-internet world to what we’ve got now.

A proposed solution was that instead of having people vie for attention on large social media platforms, discussions should occur among smaller groups, on platforms that don’t use algorithms to curate user’s feeds.

What’s interesting is that Discourse meets the criteria of the proposed solution _and_ that an educated group of people didn’t seem to be aware of platforms like Discourse or the open source ecosystem. That got me wondering if we’re being a bit too quiet about it. How can non-technical people be made aware that there are viable alternatives to Facebook and Twitter?

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