evil shooflemy sincerest wish for the discourse between bluesky, fedi, threads, and the husk of twitter, is this: i want people to realize that no single place will be The Universal Social Network.
twitter's whole deal was that it felt like where all the Important People were, and there were enough people with power there that it functionally was. but different social networks always ended up holding different demographics doing different things.
my pet theory is that federated social media - with defederation as easy as federation, and allowlist federation as supported as blocklist - allows for a healthier behavior where multiple cliques and subgraphs of the social network exist and can interchange at their edges, and maybe that's good. i dno't know though
fundamentally all social networks will inevitably face the same problem by which facebook was brung low: people don't want to share a social context with their parents.
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SchwarzeLocke@shoofle I remember when online communities were organized by topic, not by persons. Within a community, e.g. a forum or chat, you got to learn people and their position in relation to that topic - other topics just became off-topic and either had dedicated sub-forums or were happening in different communities, possibly with a different persona (account/nick).
@shoofle "Social" media flipped the approach: instead of following a topic, the social media approach forced you to follow people. During that transition, multi-accounts became unpopular and in case of Facebook against their TOS.
With that, you got to learn the people and their option on all kinds of topics.
Discussing a specific topic became much harder, since the relationships were formed by general overlap.
@shoofle The dilemma became: should I follow someone, who shares a specific topic with me, but 90% of the time posts about topics I'm not interested in?
I think federation is key to go back to more topic-oriented communities. It restores the idea of multiple accounts, perhaps a general public profile, and several topic-oriented sub-accounts. Those could be completely isolated, or could be interlinked and occasionally share posts across.