Comment on "The "fediverse" is the future of social media"

Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think people came to Mastodon expecting a new Twitter. Mastodon doesn’t try to hook you with algorithms the same way Twitter does, so you don’t get the same dopamine cycle.

  I think it’s great, all the people I want to follow are on there and I don’t get random tweets that “may interest me” and “people I should follow” every time I scroll. It sucks as a platform to meet (and get enraged by) strangers on the internet. The lack of an algorithm and reliable view statistics also makes attempts at gaining any kind of influencer status pointless, and no company will bribe you with free stuff when they can’t see how many people you’ve surreptitiously advertised their product to.

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• spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The people on Mastadon are why I chose not to stay there. If you don’t know and adhere to the “expected behaviour” there you’re the devil and a million people with furry avatars will surely let you know.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you provide an example of this “expected behaviour”?

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    • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Being self righteous and compete with others for who is the most morally superior. Being against any sort of algos that make interesting content. Being against trying to grow the fedi as it’s “growth mindset”. Against having your feed not being political and activist content that gets exhausting. Being an out of touch old white collar worker who has zero money issues they actually have to deal with

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    • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure. Agree with everything everyone says otherwise you’re a bigot/nazi/right wing homophobe.

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      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah… sorry if I am very skeptical of your criticism…

        99% of the time anyone says what you say… there’s a reason for it.

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• superduperenigma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nah just the usual issue of nerds having a pathological need to look down on anything that doesn’t meet their arbitrary standards for niche technologies. Same with people scoffing at someone who uses too “mainstream” of a Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint rather than Arch or whatever.

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• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are possibly multiple reasons

  • It’s bad because it’s popular

  • It’s bad because of features

  • It’s bad because the users

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