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I have a feeling that Mastodon was designed to be a sort of anti-social network but advertised as a social network only for the marketing. I'm all for having so
by lifthrasiir 2y ago
I have a feeling that Mastodon was designed to be a sort of anti-social network but advertised as a social network only for the marketing. I'm all for having some alternative model to lessen the apparently inherent addictiveness in social networking, but advertising as a social network feels dishonest to me.
- oytis 2y agoWhat's anti-social about it? You can follow people, you can talk to other people, you can write things for others to read and discuss. It's not advertisement-oriented, and thus doesn't try to keep the engagement high. But those are anti-features of social networks, not what they promise.
- dingnuts 2y agoSomething about the design causes cliques to form, both within and between instances, expressed with mutual blocking and bans based on association. It's actually extremely antisocial! It's why I left, all the instances were tribes with beefs against the other instances, and that told me something about the design encourages the behavior calling it antisocial is pretty apt imho
- oytis 2y agoOh, that's a (n anti-) social game I've missed somehow, everything is civil in my bubble. Only have one blocked account in my profile that looks like a bot that followed me for no reason.
- krapp 2y agoIt is a social network. Social networks aren't defined by the use of addiction loops and dark patterns.