Katerina MarchánNov 4, 2022

reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:

👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.

Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration

Show threadAdam Ierymenko
@zkat Also as I've said many times: I don't think deplatforming is needed here because there's no algorithm (and the other stuff you mention) to artificially inflate toxic content to "drive engagement." If a bunch of pajama Nazis want to form a circle jerk that's fine but you're not going to get things like the Qanon epidemic here (I hope). Structurally different.
Nov 4, 2022 at 11:22pmWeb