Mastodawn

I see a lot of anger motivated posts, from people claiming they really hate something. I also see posts from people that absolutely love something (and most of them are honest and fun to read, some very few try to sell me something). what is completely missing however are meh posts. Where people say that while something isn't as wonderful as they want it to be, it still gets the job done so all is good. So. Post more meh stuff :) The world isn't binary :) Let's call it #MehPost

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

Feb 18

I'll start. My supermarket now has these fancy self-checkout counters. I still prefer to go to the register with a real person behind it, but when I only buy a bottle of milk and some other little things, the self-checkout is fast and convenient.

My electric bicycle is a cheap and simple no-name. It was less than €700 and its electronics are not very modern or comfortable. But it runs completely offline, has no Bluetooth or GPS or App and gets me from/to work and around town reliably since almost 2 years. It's truly meh and I like it that way :) It uses more or less standard batteries that are cheap to replaee, though my original battery is still going strong, so no need yet to replace it.

The hate posts and the total love posts are IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) hard to overcome habits from the centralised "social" networks, where extreme posts get reach as the algorithms prefer outliers over average to provoke more interaction that allows them to sell more ads. ActivityPub and Mastodon are fundamentally different in that regard. Here we are people. Not influencers. So share more #MehPost, it's what makes us different. And better :)

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Mike Fraser Feb 18

@jwildeboer I find I often have to de-program new users. There's no cred farming here, your likes literally don't matter except to you..

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Ölbaum Feb 21

@mike Still, if you get a nice amount of followers, it makes your life easier when you have to ask a question.

Someone popular recently asked a question about panel mount connectors, and got maybe 50 answers. I had asked almost the same question a week prior, and didn’t even get one boost. And I used hashtags and they didn’t.
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Mike Fraser

@oscherler @jwildeboer You're right network effects are the same no matter where you go.