The details about how Quote Tweets contribute to toxicity, and toxicity to engagement are something the Mastodon crowd needs to read.
Twitter migrants are still stuck in the “engagement at all costs” mindset, and really should read this article and the other articles it links to, and reconsider if embracing toxicity is worth the increase in engagement.
Federated social media is generally ad-free, so there’s no monetary incentive to chase engagement for the sake of engagement. It’s a capitalist mindset people joining the fediverse need to leave at the door.
People shouldn’t be leaving Twitter just to recreate its worst features in a decentralized way. Smaller communities with better adhesion are better communities to be a part of. I don’t want to go “viral”, I just want to communicate with my peers.
Indeed. I recently started using the term “personal social networking” where fediverse allows people to tailor their own social graph such that it delivers the most value to them. It is more human-scale. A huge public square like Twitter where people are all shouting for attention from their soapbox and trying to influence groups visiting the square is nice and all, if that’s your thing. In real life most people don’t do that kind of thing. They aren’t hanging around with 2,000 ‘friends’ visiting bars in the weekend.
Give me a personal social network with human relationships that are below Dunbar’s Number, and then give me access to a separate knowledge network to find information I am interested in. Hey, that last bit is the web we already have. I personally do not need advanced search in all the things that 9 million fedizens have said the past couple of years, same as I do not audio record and transcribe my daily life, interviewing my friends at a birthday party.
Some people really needs to read that. ^
And regarding the quote-reply: I’ve seen some other fediverse software implementing it and it had not provoked any toxicity. I think that in nhe end it really depends on its users.
And also on the fact that the fediverse does not have an algorithm that promotes hate speach.
The title would suggest that there would be something specific in the text about a decentralized Internet, which is just now trying to resurface, if only in the form of the fediverse.
But there’s not a word about anything other than centralized corpo-social-media.It talks about the old forum culture though, which is in many ways the inspiration for much of the Fediverse.
