LocalJoost 🥽I wonder if the golden age of social media is over. Facebook felt like a birthday party with family and friends, Twitter like the digital village Cafe. Now it's mostly a dystopia of ads and nasty behavior.
There are some pockets left, but it's not half as fun any more. Lots of friends who showed me a digital view in their lives have gone or severely restricted their posting. It's like walking ever emptier halls
♈ Rising@localjoost So true!
Alex, the Hearth Fire@localjoost imagining a golden age is maybe not the best way to keep the present pleasant
@WizardOfDocs I know. I just feel sad. I feel we lost something. Or maybe I lost something I imagined we had.
@localjoost Mastodon feels more like a village cafe to me than Twitter ever did
Possibly because I joined Twitter in the first place for a marketing job
And/or because my home instance has always had some level of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon vibes
I agree that it often feels like losing things, but what we're losing can, and arguably must, be rebuilt in direct defiance of the things trying to take it away
@WizardOfDocs I joined in July 2007, I remember things were different then. After 15 years, I may well remember incorrectly. But I had conversations with total strangers, like now
@localjoost my partner also says Twitter was better that far back
shrug
Not worth my spoons to wish we were back there