snappyhomeJan 14
I keep having nostalgic early Twitter feelings about the #forkiverse, and I think it's because of the smallness and smarts of the people here - nobody listens to Hard/Engine who doesn't have two brain cells to rub together. But if the goal is to (in @pj 's words) "take control of social media out of the hands of the Musks and Zuckerbergs," (7:08) can something that stays small and insular manage to do that?
Show threadGordon Taylor

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Humans evolved our social skills over ages in small tribes.

Social emotions like shame and embarrassment are for small groups, not big ones. Humans aren’t really designed to interact with a billion strangers, which is why the social media experiment has proven super depressing for almost everybody…

I wonder if this is actually the way? Small federated tribes with access to/awareness of other tribes...
it sure is nice so far! #forkiverse #fediverse

Jan 15 at 2:45amWeb
Show threadsnappyhomeJan 15
@goodgord you make a good point. The question that remains is: can a federation of little cozy communities displace the power and capability that comes with massive scale? New York City has something like 8 and a half million people. All the US cities with populations between 90k and 400k together have six times that. But NYC makes more interesting culture than all those little cities put together because scale creates advantages along with its problems.
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Show threadGordon TaylorJan 15

@snappyhome @pj fascinating! I wonder if it says something about the nature of relationships between tribes - or the proximal distance/availability/appropriation between them.

(Sometimes I wonder if this is all just complex math - hey it worked for LLMs… )

Show threadBen WooJan 15
@goodgord @snappyhome @pj every big city is really a system of neighborhoods. Chicago is famous for it, LA is mocked for it, and NYC has every kind
Show threadspoonmanJan 15
@snappyhome @goodgord @pj what I never got about social media: I might have something to say about topic X (say Pearl Jam in my case) but I would keep that convo to its audience. I would never stand in front of a large crowd of strangers and hold court about a Pearl Jam show I went to, unless they were all PJ people (& even then maybe not!). Yet online this is normal…? People can block me, but how do I keep myself out of unrelated convos? Then I might be game b/c it’s how I would be offline
Show threadAlex UngerJan 15

@goodgord @snappyhome @pj for the sake of the argument, aren't small tribes prome to siloism? That alone would make the fediverse much more versatile than a centralized social media.

"You're home, but can go and take a walk around th neighborhood and listen to other siloes"

Needless to say here at the forkiverse I feel home :)