• SalamanderMA
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    1 year ago

    Twitter is chaotic for me too. Maybe I just didn’t give it the time to learn how to use it properly, but when someone links me to a thread there I find it difficult to figure out who is responding to who and the chronology 😅 Broadcasting things into the abyss is not my favorite communication style, I prefer this more conversational format.

    Also, I know that Mastodon has its reasons for not enabling search, but I think my mastodon experience would be a lot better if I could search…

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      1 year ago

      I had, in my heyday, 10k+ followers and approx 100 likes per tweet

      it’s the “social” of social media. you find a circle of people and you all like and retweet each other, converse, make DM rooms and build a community.

      or you’re rich and famous or are retweeted by people who are.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks, that adds some perspective. I didn’t know you could make DM rooms!

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      1 year ago

      I have used the exact sentence “broadcasting into the abyss” hahaha. It feels to me that everything is short lived and context-less

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        😂 It is what it feels like.

        @funkless_eck mentioned in the other comment that it is a nice social experience when you build a follower base and a community to speak with each other.

        But I am a very chaotic person that is interested in many different things, and so I create lots of accounts for each site to try to keep things compartmentalized. Like, lots of accounts.

        So a site that relies on the development of a specific account to deliver a good experience is not alluring to my personality. I want to be able to jump right in with an anonymous account and participate. When I post something with a new account to twitter, I have no followers, and so that’s why I’m literally broadcasting into the abyss.