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Neil BrownIf your complaint is that there is too little fun / shitposting in the fediverse, you are following the wrong people.
If your complaint is that there is too much fun / shitposting in the fediverse, you are still following the wrong people.
FallRise@neil this is why the fediverse won’t succeed. It’s so bad💀
Ariaflame@ariaflame @neil bad for everyone. Including me I’m just obsessed
living edge case
Justin ⏚@neil Decentralization requires a level of personal responsibility users aren't used to. I think a lot of people are expecting a more curated experience, but the biggest selling point to the Fediverse is that Musk/Zuck etc isn't doing the curating.
Alvaro 
That's very true. I use fosstodon mostly on a PC with advanced web view to have multiple columns with hashtags I follow (tweetdeck-style). My main feed is not enough without algorithmic recommendations.
It's an interesting situation. You need to put more effort, but then at least it feels like you're looking at what you've decided you're interested in, not some random "Humans without context" viral post. But it is effort that you might not want to put in 🤷♂️
socdev
Justin Buist@JustinH @neil I wouldn't mind some kind of system that allowed one to curate their own experience with some automation. I imagine something that can pull from my fediverse activity, characterize what interests me, present that back to me for validation, and then allow me to submit that model of what I like to fediverse instances to search them for suitable content. Users can pick their curation algorithm and I like the idea of a validation step where you review what it thinks you like. In my case I will interact with politics and economics topics but I might not want to actually add more of that to my life. So I'd probably turn them off. Muckyzuck Co makes money by feeding me more of it though and increasing engagement.
I'm unlikely to look at my social media use and say, "Oh no! I'm spending too much time with planetary scientists and mathematicians doing nerd stuff!" vs political sparring.
Oblomov
nice glutes 
@neil The goldilocks ratio of just the right amount of fun / shitposting
Kou Ki@neil
Imagine saying to a newcomer who is not being able to satisfy the need to make the right connections on the fediverse, that the problem is that they failed to do so.
Imagine saying to a newcomer who is not being able to satisfy the need to make the right connections on the fediverse, that the problem is that they failed to do so.
Gregor Kalinkat@neil can you recommend some outstanding shitposters in the fediverse?
kolya@kolya @jimmerthatisall @Sardonicus @bartholin @mikemathia @kaia @Gargron @georgepenney @UncleDuke1969 @billyidl
excellent! thanks a million 💐
@gkalinkat Sure. Just follow the boosts and you'll find tons more.
LouD
Nordern@neil It's always easy to blame the user, but this also just indicates an issue with finding the right people to follow.
Simon Detheridge 
Mike@neil true, but incomplete. The discovery tools on mastodon are very poor (often intentionally so), and that makes finding the right people to follow difficult.
The Mesa@neil seems fairly obvious, but I suppose it needs to be said😆
Beautiful Life@neil I just joined from Twitter and I’m not tech savvy so it’s been a bit difficult to understand the dynamics. I also rarely post, but I’m slowly getting it. I do miss recommendations, but the site is worth it.
Piers Beckley@neil I live in a Goldilocks world.
spidey 
@neil any recommendations for who I should follow if I find myself feeling the former?
Christopher Walker@neil Exactly. A lot of the people I follow are weirdos and misfits and I just love them so much. 💕
Mark T. Tomczak@neil And if your tastes change from month to month, I recommend using the Lists feature. ;)
Stuck Here
Chris Real@neil A lot of people coming here think that it should just be twitter but you don't get censored.
No, it's twitter but you don't get BOOSTED.
Trolls die here, not because they get owned, but because they are ignored.
𝕮𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖔𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖉@neil ... and if you follow the right people, your feed is juuuuuust right! 😇
The porridge is not too hot nor is it too cold 🍚🔥❄️
The porridge is not too hot nor is it too cold 🍚🔥❄️
Aviva Gary@neil snap snap
TheLastStraw@neil I love me some shit posting, got any recommendations for me to check out?
Bruce Heerssen 
@neil
Great. So now I have to look for the mythical shit post/fun goldilocks zone. Thanks a lot.
Great. So now I have to look for the mythical shit post/fun goldilocks zone. Thanks a lot.
þēodrīċ, norþes ecghlāford@neil as someone who was silenced/softbanned on sdf.org for shitposting, I, for one, would love to cultivate a shitpostiverse where likeminded poasters can enjoy each other's company without upsetting fragile psyches across fedi
@neil (the ban message, as I recall, included the words 'I enjoy potty humor as much as the next person, but[...]')
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Crochetcat@neil I’m happy with the balance of serious/shitposting achieved.
Emma (IPG)@neil i'm guessing the same goes for that there's not my kind of fun / shitposting
Lydia Conwell :firefish:@neil If it's just right ...
You're following the wrong people.
You're following the wrong people.
@neil Or you're following Goldilocks idk
costrike@neil And what if I have precisely the right amount of shitposting in my TL? WHAT THEN?!
Sebastian Wilken@neil If your complaint is that there is too many people bossing you around in the fediverse ... you're just right.