blaineNov 19, 2022

There is a clear line between the cultural factions on Mastodon:

Community Groups vs Broadcast Social Media.

This tent has to be big enough for both. Thankfully, the protocols support this. @darius's Hometown fork of Mastodon is even better than Mastodon for small community groups (but still federates where you need it!)

We need a Mastodon fork (or AP server) that works more like Twitter, for more broadcast orientated individuals and organizations.

Show threadJoanna Bryson, blathering
@blaine @darius The tent may be big enough but the toots are too long and I'm seeing too much rubbish to get the quality I learnt to expect from twitter of new knowledge broadcasted. I never even liked litter (long twitter 240 chars). This just seems like moderately fun 2007 twitter chatter, not 2014 actually getting work done but pre-feed-algorithm twitter which is what I'd really like.
Nov 19, 2022 at 8:36amWeb
Show threadarcktipNov 19, 2022
@j2bryson @blaine @darius I agree the system needs design for depth/community vs surface/broadcast. It matters for posting & reading & dialogue. I find the longer format here refreshing. Twitter became a broadcast “me me” space with many tweets just hot takes to appeal to quick attention hits (similar to TikTok) which some hacked w/ threaded tweets. The few short hot takes here make me want to mute folks. Maybe Twitter can be the “broadcast” space & we don’t need it all in 1 tent.