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@sengi_app I’d suggest #SocialMedia and apps developers in general to precisely define what their use case is, and what it isn’t.
I really, really wish Mastodon wrote in its first-launch tutorial something like "Hello, social media by definition isn’t meant to make new friends, Mastodon somehow fixes this with local TLs but it’s still ’meritocratic’, if you’re already isolated AFK you might be interested in something else like IRC or Matrix; with #Twitter your database entries (e.g. tweets, files…) are shared by people who have no relationship with you and this format just isn’t meant for deep connections but instead for mass social consumerism; you may have intentional communities on Mastodon if your instance is properly moderated, but unlike honk(1) this is still a Twitter clone, and anyway on every small microblog instance, trying to have deep relationships with people will make you desperately try to grab people’s attention and give you this inner misanthropic and depression feeling; conversely small instances (including honk(1)) may be great if you use them to follow people who mostly talk about public interest matters like politics or cultural events, so choose your instance accordingly, and don’t hesitate to use other communication software"
#ActivityPub-related and #mastodev
I really, really wish Mastodon wrote in its first-launch tutorial something like "Hello, social media by definition isn’t meant to make new friends, Mastodon somehow fixes this with local TLs but it’s still ’meritocratic’, if you’re already isolated AFK you might be interested in something else like IRC or Matrix; with #Twitter your database entries (e.g. tweets, files…) are shared by people who have no relationship with you and this format just isn’t meant for deep connections but instead for mass social consumerism; you may have intentional communities on Mastodon if your instance is properly moderated, but unlike honk(1) this is still a Twitter clone, and anyway on every small microblog instance, trying to have deep relationships with people will make you desperately try to grab people’s attention and give you this inner misanthropic and depression feeling; conversely small instances (including honk(1)) may be great if you use them to follow people who mostly talk about public interest matters like politics or cultural events, so choose your instance accordingly, and don’t hesitate to use other communication software"
#ActivityPub-related and #mastodev
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Yes I thought about that a lot with #Smithereen. Mastodon doesn't address the problem of "you've picked an instance and signed up, now what" in a way most people would expect it addressed. It has public feeds and puts a great emphasis on an instance being a community. Which doesn't work very well in practice because people want to participate in many communities and having a separate account in each is too much of an investment.