Ethan J. A. SchoonoverMar 7, 2023

Stop thinking of Twitter, TikTok, IG, (et al) as social media sites.

They are **Content Refineries.**

Like processed food manufacturers they take user content & extract the most addicting/engaging content. Brains eat it up but in an unhealthy “devour the whole bag of chips” way.

They make hyper-processed social media junk food.

Mastodon is more like a potluck. We're all bringing dishes. It's a mess. Kids are running all over. But we are, at least, real people sharing real things.

Show threadsteelmanMar 8, 2023
@ethanschoonover I've been on Twitter for twice as long as I've been here and I have never let T “feed me”. I have always used the chrono timeline to see only stuff people I care about have to say. Twitter is flawed in many ways but the algorithmic TL isn't anywhere near the top of my list, because I can switch it off and have nearly the same experience as here (mod advertisements 1 in 20 tweets, but I just don't care).
Show threadChristoph Derndorfer-Medosch
@steelman @ethanschoonover My thoughts exactly. Pre-Musk Twitter with the chronological timeline was awesome and frankly speaking a much better experience than Mastodon today. The breadth of content was just much wider and search actually works the way one expects it to).
Jun 18, 2023 at 11:21amWeb