ManMachineJul 14
lynn / clarissa

Man one of the worst things twitter did to us, as a people, is that it made someone's posts on the internet dissectable objects of public scrutiny, even when they're very clearly meant to be idle thoughts or very personal feelings and experiences

If you said it and it's on the internet it's fair game for 10k people to consume and turn over in their mouths before spitting out their half-digested opinion on what you really meant, what you were trying to say, and what it says about society

Like imagine how bizarre this would be in-person? You overhear someone saying that she just couldn't really get into her spinning class and you stop in your tracks, point at her, repeat what she just said Very Loudly, and then proceed to rant about how she's clearly blaming society for her inability to lose weight and no one likes hard work anymore!

You'd rightfully be shunned for being such a weirdo!

Jul 14 at 12:45amWeb
Show threadlynn / clarissaJul 14
"would this be fucking unhinged to do in person?" is actually a metric I use about online interactions fairly regularly
Show threadScarlet the FoxJul 14

@left_adjoint That's a good metric, to be honest, and I think this post sort of captures why I found twitter so alienating early on.

It really felt like a wild west, anything goes as long as you get internet points, type of place, and I'm not surprised by what it's turned into today. Early on, I felt like that's where things were heading, and I ran away.

I'm generally thankful that my small corner of mastodon isn't like that.

Show threadMx. Aria StewartJul 15
@left_adjoint This goes well with my defaults that online social spaces are basically the hallway at a conference. Not the same kind of conference for everyone, but that amount of public.
Show thread🌙 may ⚙️Jul 14
@left_adjoint banger
Show threadKeeper of the orbJul 14
@left_adjoint d... do you not remember livejournal bc this didnt begin on xitter (tho it was made profitable to advertisers there)
Show threadKeeper of the orbJul 14
@left_adjoint like i agree this behavior def is brain poisoning but also, hoooo doggie, livejournal was brutal sometimes
Show threadlynn / clarissaJul 14
@hi_cial It's the scale difference
Show threadKeeper of the orbJul 14

@left_adjoint i guess? but when i outed the ff7 house i had my lj so overrun by randos w opinions it hit the comment limit and i had to make a new entry just for comment & reply??? and i remember a similar situation w the burned cat (that didnt exist) asking for donations. i guess xitter made it easier for any old post to become like that late in its game bc the algo threw it anywhere at any time

but idk it rly didnt start on xitter, just kinda crystalized there imo

Show threadlynn / clarissaJul 14

@hi_cial Yeah that's literally my point: I never said twitter invented internet harassment I mean that "any old post" about anything could make you a Main Character of the internet so badly it made the news!

That was actually different

Show threadKeeper of the orbJul 14

@left_adjoint hm i wonder too tho how much of that isnt the 24/7 news networking desperate to fill voids paired w the internet being ubiquitous now versus the aughts? like the aughts it was very "what goes online stays online only nerds talk abt the internet"

now news networks are willing to namedrop any public forum theyre bumbling around on, and journos got suuuuper lazy relying on xitter trending topics to write their pieces

Show threadbdsJul 14
@left_adjoint this post should be the first thing someone reads as soon as they sign up for any social media site 🎯
some might need the reminder daily though lol