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[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, when you sign up for Threads your timeline is nothing but shitty influencers for the first few days, yet somehow they manage to press on through that without getting the vapors or whatever.

[–] sab@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Social media is not social media any more. It's a one way stream of thinly coated commercials and political propaganda, behind a veil of interaction so that people feel some false sense of agency over the whole thing. In the ideal scenario, everything is perfectly tailored to targeted groups so that the whole experience feels very "engaging".

When people say the fediverse is hard, what I suspect they mean is that they don't manage to make it addictive in the same way.

People leaving Twitter are slaves looking for a new master or junkies looking for a new high. Using Mastodon as a Twitter replacement is hard in the same way it's hard to use commercial-grade glue as a substitute for heroin.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

What do you mean that Mastodon promotes the discussion of complete ideas with room for context and citations?

I'm just here to be force fed hyperbole at a rate slightly slower than would pop a blood vessel in my brain.

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

I find it quite funny that so many people came from Twitter, didn't have content instantly fed to them and were like "what do I do???" you mean I have to find things myself? the horror!

[–] areyouevenreal@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey I find Lemmy and Mastodon addictive enough. Then again I still use mainstream platforms too. Mainly because their are things I want to look at and people I folloe that haven't or won't move over.

[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I don't use mainstream platforms much (other than direct messaging), and was pretty fine with Mastodon. I'm finding Kbin a bit too addictive though, maybe especially because I never really used Reddit in the first place.

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Can confirm am a Twitter slave trying to use glue to get high and it ain't working 😔

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

My account never made it through the first few days before they shut it down for community violation.

I never posted, I just want to be ready for if they ever start federating.