just because corporate social media has trained you to believe the way to interact with it is shouting "i like steak" doesn't mean the way most people using the

just because corporate social media has trained you to believe the way to interact with it is shouting "i like steak" doesn't mean the way most people using the fediverse right now are doing the same. most of the people in my circle of the network explicitly aren't trying to do that, they're trying to have nice conversations with the people around them. they are, in the analogy, talking at a reasonable volume to the people they're sitting with, not yelling "i like steak" and hoping someone with no connection to them jumps in. in fact, they're not doing that to the degree that most will just block randos without some social graph connection to them who jump in their conversations. one of the big concerns with meta joining the fediverse is that it is going to explicitly try forcing people into their mode of interaction, the yelling "i like steak" and hoping a bunch of random people join in (and this is a well founded fear, considering that facebook literally did that to their own platform, going from "talk with your friends and maybe your friends' friends" to "lets show your posts to whatever random people we think will interact with it"). the thing a lot of people like about the current iteration of the fediverse is that it brings back the more direct social connections of social networks of yore, and isn't the "lets game it to see who can get the most interactions" platform you see with facebook, instagram, twitter, and friends.