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 For me, Twitter became "enshittified" when the service became about passive consumption. And I get it. Some people just want to turn off their brains and zone out. But not me. I'm here to talk to people, have a conversation, and test out new ideas that could change the world. 21 comments
Once you go down the "passive consumption" route, social media stops being social. Instead it becomes television. And television sucks. It's a one way window where a talking head speaks to you -- but you can't speak back. Why would anyone want this -- and pretend this is in any way "social"? "Social" implies a two way conversation. If it's one way, the "social" is a facade. @olavf Again, no service has to be all things to all people. If someone wants to created a federated service for viewing cat photos, just make caturday.social. Make it gallery-focused. Obviously, that's not what I want. But that's fine.  @atomicpoet @olavf  @atomicpoet absolutely right!  @atomicpoet ,That's an interesting way to put it. Social media are now like TV. (Think about "doom scrolling.") The fediverse is a social *network.* @atomicpoet I posit that ‘passive consumption’ is what turned Social Networking into Social Media. The intentionality of using Mastodon = Social Networking. @atomicpoet That is the difference between a “social network” @atomicpoet Also nice find. It helps me feel nerdly superior that this is the thinker's social media.   @atomicpoet People like to have everything "as a service". They like to watch celebrity marriage, sport games, talk shows, porn, influencers and so on. Rather than acting/thinking autonomous. The world shown by professional actors seems to be more comfortable as so I can make no mistake myself. @atomicpoet You nailed there and square. We come here to engage with people, have conversations, test ideas, search for different views... not to 'consume media'... 'without thinking'... I think there is plenty of that everywhere else. Moreover, I love the fact that here we can really talk to the people 'running the thing'... not only 'their users'... Anyway, nothing is everything to everyone. "I'm here to talk to people, have a conversation, and test out new ideas that could change the world." YES...! I'm here to do that too - I only got into Social Media BECAUSE of an observation that 'could change the world'. So Mastodon is BETTER for that than Twitter, right...? Well, not in my experience; there's no publishing algorithm here, so (presumably, because no stats either...) nobody sees my stuff without a 'boost'. And 'my stuff' gets more CRICKETS than BOOSTS... @atomicpoet @zleap being silent is torture for me. I was in a treatment center as a teen where they didn’t let me talk for 10 days and it was pure hell.  @atomicpoet I curated the hell out of who I followed, and who I let follow me. My Twitter feed was primarily conversations & really similar to what I experience here. I didn’t follow huge accounts to have them spout things at me. I talked about things with the people that followed me & that I followed. My Twitter feed was just as full of science & art & poetry & photography & politics as this is. A lot Twitter was actually what you made of it I think it’s why this is a good fit @atomicpoet Thinking about this further, I'm wondering if builders of the fediverse shouldn't take some lessons from biology. Think about the fediverse as an entity. So it will need to live with invaders (get sick) but also have several immune systems that engage at various levels. |
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@atomicpoet Twitter was a shitter from the beginning. 140 character limit? It was always going to devolve into "who can shout the loudest"