Gregory's Server@lowqualityfacts @siegi it is probably especially difficult for journalists to understand a social tool cautiously designed to avoid reaching too many people at once
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@llPK @lowqualityfacts @siegi @howtophil @lowqualityfacts @siegi I can see the appeal of that. But still, it becomes a numbers game, doesn’t it? It's more like modeling the social spaces to fit real-life tendencies of how humans function. It appears to be hard for humans to actively track the lives of more people than that - to "care" in a meanuingful way. @howtophil@mastodon.social @llPK@mastodon.social @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social @siegi@tooting.ch I fell like a lot of old niche forums reached something akin to that number in terms of active users. Coincidentally, a lot of the long time friends that I made on the internet where from that era and it makes me wonder if there's any connection to that. |
@llPK@mastodon.social @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social @siegi@tooting.ch My reaction to that is "Oh, so they'll have to go back to cultivating a readership rather than posting ever-increasing click-bait titles and takes to be noticed in the stream?"
I'm usually pretty frustrated on this topic as a lot of journalists will decry the abuses of giant social media and in the same breath, refuse to move off because the UI is a little different.