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 threaddzamie Nov 5, 2022
@zkat Could you explain "viral dampening effect," please? This is the first time I've heard the term.
Show threadKaterina MarchánNov 5, 2022
@dzamie it’s a lot harder for things to explode virally on mastodon. It’s a thing I’ve seen complaints about and how it makes mastodon unviable, but I’m making the point that this is a good feature to have
Show threaddzamie 
@zkat Ah. What causes it, do you think? Obviously, the lack of algorithm is a major contributor (as said on tumblr, "there is no algorithm. *We* are the algorithm"), but even tumblr gets famous/infamous posts for awhile.
Nov 5, 2022 at 1:05amWeb