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 threadKaterina MarchánNov 4, 2022
I made the mistake of looking at Twitter and it's just a bunch of people freaking out and lamenting that you can't sic a bunch of angry people on others by QT-dunking
Show threadPeter Robinson
@zkat interesting, we had a nice chatty friendly group in twitter. Occasionally a disrupter would come along but the block function dealt with them quickly and easily. It was possible to have pleasant interactions. It’s not all bad, just like anywhere else really, a mixture of good and bad, complainers and gatekeepers. people are weird.
Nov 5, 2022 at 3:03amWeb
Show threadKrisztina HirthNov 5, 2022
@peterobi @zkat same here and I hope it can happen here too (otherwise it will be a fail for us 😕)
Show threadPeter RobinsonNov 6, 2022
@yellowbrickc @zkat fingers crossed 🤞