Gregory's ServerI said "lastly" but then my replies become almost immediately overwhelming. It's great that a lot of people like this/want to argue about it/are thinking about it!
But I am just one brain so I'm going to miss a lot of things, apologies.
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@kissane That being said, there are definite steps one can follow to make Mastodon a better experience. I’m still no good with hashtags (trying). Also, I try to be more in the moment about social media. I’ve learned to let it all go. If I can’t move or save my posts when I leave an instance or deactivate/delete a social media account, that’s fine. It simply isn’t important to me. I understand that isn’t the case for many others. /2  @kissane this is really great and interesting work - some of it was stuff that I felt and feel around Fediverse, other bits made no sense to me (people really think you can't be silly? On here!?), but it's so valuable to actually listen to people who aren't here and to at least think about why @derwinmcgeary @kissane The "you can't be silly" really surprised me too. I wonder why they thought that? Maybe their instance?  @cjordahl @derwinmcgeary @kissane that might be related to the first few encounters they had on here, and if they had backing-up community at the time. i can very well imagine how alienating it could be if the first encounter were an annoying reply human reciting rules that exist only in their mind, but doing it with great conviction.  @derwinmcgeary I totally think the shitposters just can't find each other, it's a tragedy @kissane One of my most boosted posts was a thoughtful take on CWs and in/out group distinctions. It was overtaken today by something which barely qualifies as a spoonerism. Land of contrasts, I tell ya @kissane @derwinmcgeary yes, they can. It's just they coalesce into smaller, cliqueier groups who knew each other BT (Before Twitter). @kissane @derwinmcgeary Well if that’s the case, they can stay over on other platforms! @derwinmcgeary @kissane I think it's also a perception thing as well, because there's no algorithm pushing memes and what not, the atmosphere has become something like you talking with your professional peers more than kicking back and talking shit with your friends.  @kissane thank you again for your humane and human approach to qualitative research, and your lucidity. The fediverse needs this, though I'm not sure it has earned it.   @kissane I think I lucked out in being successful with the automated migration script effectively recreating my follows, and in choosing a pretty good server that was successful in dealing with growing pains. I got mildly chided once for too much CW on inoffensive image content.  @kissane re: feature to prompt for alt text: perhaps some use for image recognition ML to generate an initial description as default text? Could be a complete hash, and plenty of considerations for implementation , but IMO it’d reduce friction for alt text considerably. @kissane I’m confused that people wouldn’t research how it works. Twitter used to work entirely by hashtags and that’s what you need to do here. Instagram does still, although Facebook no longer does. And you can follow people on different instances if you learned how that works. Social Media apps aren’t all the same. Why would they be? That said, there are always going to be lazy folks who don’t like being able to customize their sm experiences. @schoolingdiana @kissane Thing is that a lot of people didn't jump on to Twitter until it reached "critical mass" when even more people jumped in. By then Twitter already had their algorithms in place. Only the most die hard Twitter user from early Twitter days would know the days when it didn't have any algorithms like the fediverse today... |
@kissane Thank you for your work on this. Like many Bluesky/former Mastodon users I had a really tough time with the sign up and paralysis over which instance to choose. The first one I chose (mastodon.social) was huge and overwhelming. I didn’t even understand the fediverse AT ALL at that point. Fast-forward to late last year, when Twitter changed hands. I changed my instance to a regional one (made much more sense) and have been pleased with it. /1