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 threadMiakoda Nov 5, 2022
@zkat
QT-dunking?
Show threadKaterina MarchánNov 5, 2022
@hellomiakoda quote-tweeting into your own timeline with some kind of clever dunk on someone else's tweet
Show threadMiakoda Nov 6, 2022
@zkat
Side note - My mind heard "Cutie Dunking"
Show threadsbi
@hellomiakoda I was not surprised to find that you might be a programmer. 😁
Nov 6, 2022 at 6:56amWeb
Show threadMiakoda Nov 6, 2022
@sbi
I'm not a programmer, just a computer nerd. I might become one though
Show threadsbiNov 6, 2022
@hellomiakoda Ah, OK. Well, you seemed to know what Qt is. 😂
Show threadMiakoda Nov 6, 2022

@sbi
Yes. Apps that use it fit better in my distro, and apps that don't often have a bunch of GTK dependencies that make life hell on a low storage laptop running Plasma.

Its why my Manjaro Plasma machines have Kontact and my Linux Lite machine has Evolution.