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Your 'yelling into the void' here is every yell being recorded and kept, every person who has a link to a recording being able to hear it, every person who foll
by oska 4y ago
Your 'yelling into the void' here is every yell being recorded and kept, every person who has a link to a recording being able to hear it, every person who follows a chronological playback of your yells being able to hear them all, etc, i.e. there is no 'void'.
- somat 4y agoYelling into the void is the central mechanism of twitter and platforms like twitter. I is why when I joined a mastodon server the whole thing felt so weird to me, I was expecting irc. Whom am I talking to? No one and every one. You yell into the void and hope someone is listening. Note that the same could be said for any mass publishing platform, posting a web page is also yelling into the void. or publishing a book or writing a newspaper article.