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These exoduses 9 times out of 10 only create some insular single topic community. For people who want to participate in an echo chamber. Anyone who thinks Mast

• ggm 4y ago
  Maybe the best next twitter is not to BE the next twitter? I mean seriously, what if twitter turned out to be a bad idea? We haven't had "the next 8 track" or "the next Zoetrope" or "the next cutlass" -We do other things instead. Maybe a hyperfocal single issue social construct, is what trainspotters actually WANT?
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  • rapsey 4y ago
    That is what I said. It is for people who want an echo chamber. > I mean seriously, what if twitter turned out to be a bad idea? Twitter fills a void where there is no real alternative. How can it be a bad idea? If you are morally opposed to it or something don't use it.
    • ggm 4y ago
      > Twitter fills a void where there is no real alternative. How can it be a bad idea? If you are morally opposed to it or something don't use it. It's bad because of its 2nd order effects. On mental health. On conspiracy theory. On attacks on the integrity of the polity, on social cohesion. Freedom to communicate in the wide, semi-pseudonomously turns out to be something exploitable to undermine the fabric of society at times. I don't think we can put that genie back in the bottle, but "the revolution will not be televised" maybe turns out to be .. wrong?
      • rapsey 4y ago
        Yeah sounds like the comic books and video games are going to turn children into psychopaths argument.
        • ggm 4y ago
          It does, except it's about what led to pizzagate. So.. also not about LSD being sold in sweets to small children, its lies being told to psychotic adults. And about what persisting supportive dements do to each other, once the fever hits. We're very probably poles apart on this one. I won't convince you of the risks and you won't convince me of the lack of them.
          • sinity 4y ago
            > It does, except it's about what led to pizzagate. In the times before The Internets, we had that too. OG Nazis were based on nebulous conspiracy theories about Jews. "Internationalists"*. And they certainly weren't original in that either. * I think "Globalists" we have today are synonymous to that.
• rippercushions 4y ago
  Parler/Rumble were very clearly designed for exactly one single topic, MAGA. The interesting thing about Mastodon is that it has the potential to host countless single topic communities, similar to Reddit.
  • mrlatinos 4y ago
    The problem is I have no idea how to find them, so it seems more like IRC.
    • abnercoimbre 4y ago
      Oh there's a discoverability issue between Mastodon instances?
    • _chu1 4y ago
      No, the issue with IRC is that it's dead as hell most the time despite like 200 people idling in the room.
• paulgb 4y ago
  Mastadon doesn’t ever need to become the twitter of 2022, and most people would rather it didn’t. It does remind me of Twitter in ~2008, which is arguably more fun anyway. (Anybody who thought 2008 twitter would become what it is now would also have been called delusional)
• rakoo 4y ago
  Mastodon absolutely doesn't want to be the next twitter. It is antithetical with the spirit of the creator and the community. If an actor wants to hyper centralize its users, bets are other platforms won't federate with it