Mastodawn

Katerina Marchán Nov 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

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Nov 5, 2022

@zkat text search is incredibly useful

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Katerina Marchán Nov 5, 2022

@Migueldeicaza it is, but it's also used heavily for harassment :/

Some instances do have it enabled, but it's nowhere near as powerful as what you'd get on twitter, as it's limited to what you're actively federated with.

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Daniel Hernandez

@zkat @Migueldeicaza text search has also a problem of privacy. There are good pointers in the thesis of Amy Guy @rhiaro https://rhiaro.github.io/thesis/chapter2#context-collapse

Although posts can be public, there is an imagined audience. Privacy is about context.