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A Discussion of Mastodon's Potential Growth Needs
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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I've never found Twitter or Mastodon type of social media blogging interesting, personally. I don't need to know what person X is saying or what is buzzing.
I more like to hear topic based conversation, where who is saying it matters less, so Lemmy (and formerly Reddit) was for me.
In the article apparently things feel too sanitized/no-fun-allowed on Mastodon, which is interesting. The most popular communities on Lemmy are Memes and shitposts, which I guess follows suit with this.
Blog formats (which includes mastodon) always lend themselves to either screaming into the void or following influential people screaming into the void. Forums (which includes lemmy) have always offered an easier point of entry because there's a set topic to start out. Same goes for chat rooms, I think. Meanwhile I think blog formats get an outsized portion of media coverage because they feel familiar. They're formatted like a newspaper with journalists shouting into the void and op ed pieces being a slightly contextualized version of screaming into the void. Twitter has always been a smaller part of the internet than Facebook, YouTube, or any of the other big names really, but it gets an outsized piece of coverage because journalists like it
Yeah, to me, following people on Twitter is like an online and more socially acceptable form of following that mentally unstable person that's walking along the street yammering on to themselves about how everyone's a scumbag and the world is out to get them.
Mostly yes, but sometimes people drop the occasional kernal of wisdom or knowledge. Sometimes it's about finding "your people."