Sheril KirshenbaumNov 5, 2022

After 1 week on #Mastodon, the biggest difference I notice compared to #Twitter is the way each network makes me feel.

Twitter:
Open, scroll…
“Why are people so horrible to each other?”

Mastodon:
Open, scroll…
“Wow! There are so many interesting people in the world! I want to know more of them.”

I sense being here is changing my perspective of social media. #TwitterMigration

Show threadPetri Salmela

@Sheril Human networks often build around "super cells", people that have lots of connections. Big platforms with suggestion algorithms tend to amplify this. Super cells' communication is often more "one way street". "Everybody knows the monkey, but the monkey knows nobody ."

In smaller platforms without suggestion algorithms are easily more equals and "grassroots".

Nov 6, 2022 at 9:50amTusky
Show threadmagellanoNov 6, 2022
@pesasa
25 years on the Internet and I refused to create Twitter, Facebook, Instagram accounts because of those very algorithms that distort the social elements of the platform.
@Sheril