@hodgepodge

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games and cats. what else is there?
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A thing that frustrates me about video game ~platforms~ (Steam, consoles) is they often have a "time spent playing" counter, but the counter's always unusable because it doesn't differentiate boot time from time spent *using* the game. For example, my Tunic playtime just jumped from 23 to 45 hours because after finishing my stream yesterday I alt-tabbed out of the program and left it open, but halted, for the entire time overnight until just now. So that number will never mean anything again

"Mastodon Is 'Antiviral' Design"

My essay on this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

Twitter (and most big social media) is laser-focused on creating virality -- i.e. training the joint attention of millions of people on one hot post/meme/story/event happening *right this instant* ... and doing it over and over and over again

Mastodon really isn't -- for lots of rich and interesting reasons

It's why some emigres from Twitter find Mastodon so baffling

This place embraces slowness and useful friction

Mastodon Is “Antiviral” Design - Clive Thompson - Medium

The new social software is subtly designed to reduce the huge, viral surges of attention we see on Twitter. “Mastodon Is “Antiviral” Design” is published by Clive Thompson.

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Strange having an account here for six years but never posting and waiting for this place to light up a bit. Glad to see the migration.