Hamlet's Inability To Experience Whimsythis is a lot coming from me, the uselessly autistic one, but some of the people who use this federated network talk to people like theyve never interacted with a human before
like, many situations could be avoided by simply asking yourself, "what kind of interaction was this person expecting to get with this post"
like the post that made me think about this was that guy who told james cheese "im not gay but we can be friends" but i cannot count the number of times i have made a post, and i have had people who never even think to contemplate what *i* wanted. they say what they want to say, because they want to say it, without any other care in the world, and never think about the actual impact the things they say will have
sorry if this post is poorly worded i have a bad habit of not rereading posts before i hit send
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@FirstProgenitor fwiw I think you worded it extremely well. You gave a simple guideline to follow / question to ask yourself
DensetsuNoGomez@FirstProgenitor its such a thing because if you're not directly talking to someone, most "social media" kinda defaults to a mode of "personal broadcast/self-talk media" where you just kinda throw whatever you think/feel/want to say out into the void with moderate-to-low expectations that anybody is going to notice or respond.
i wonder if that's also part of the reason social media can make people feel lonelier than if they're just offline.