This is a beautifully concise statement about what’s wrong with “algorithmically driven” social media.
My introduction to social media, at least in its web form (ie I’m not counting Usenet) was LiveJournal, because I was searching for stuff early in transition and that’s where the info was.
The info was there because the community was there. I made a lot of friends. Some really really good ones. LiveJournal changed my life, profoundly, and for the better.
And then we were lured away by Twitter and Facebook. Slick, sexy, and almost entirely bereft of the community that LiveJournal encouraged. Facebook has it a bit, which is why I’m still there.
This is why I have high hopes for the Fediverse, and particularly platforms like Friendica, which is very LiveJournal like in many ways (I think that Mastodon in particular is slightly missing the point, watering down the community aspect in an attempt to replicate Twitter, but Mastodon is not the Fediverse). I want that sense of community back.
And yeah, this is a long form list that includes formatting and an embedded quote. I know Mastodon will mess it up because it doesn’t play nice with non-Mastodon Fediverse content. I think it’s time Mastodon started playing nice with extra-Mastodon federated content.
After all, we’re trying to build community here, aren’t we?
It's not social media when talking to your friends is a gamble.If you're saying something for friends to see, and the algorithm hides what you're saying because it assumes that what you say is "not relevant" to your friends' interests, that is *not* social media.
That is anti-social media.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •The problem right here is that we call platforms designed to help people find each other and make connections, and platforms designed to make people fight each other for entertainment and advertising revenue the same thing.
The great con is that Twitter and co want you to think they’re in the same “feel good, community and friendship” business that LiveJournal and things like it were in.
And they just aren’t. Even if you are only using them to talk to your friends, they will still try to make you pick fights.
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