You know it's wild how everyone swore up and down quote posts would cause the end of the Fedi.
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You know it's wild how everyone swore up and down quote posts would cause the end of the Fedi. Like it was more of a reaction than post edits (which people freaked out over, too).
Yet so many instances have had it for ages and the sky, remarkably, has not fallen.
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You know it's wild how everyone swore up and down quote posts would cause the end of the Fedi. Like it was more of a reaction than post edits (which people freaked out over, too).
Yet so many instances have had it for ages and the sky, remarkably, has not fallen.
@Elizafox i wonder if we all just have trauma from twitter
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@Elizafox i wonder if we all just have trauma from twitter
@Elizafox …and we aren’t teenagers anymore <////<
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@Elizafox i wonder if we all just have trauma from twitter
@sierrashark@social.treehouse.systems @Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems i never used twitter but i still got affected by people's opinions on those features a bit. imo it probably has more to do with our combined inability not to revert to tribalism on social media
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@sierrashark@social.treehouse.systems @Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems i never used twitter but i still got affected by people's opinions on those features a bit. imo it probably has more to do with our combined inability not to revert to tribalism on social media
@twinkle @sierrashark A lot of people need therapy. I think Twitter legit gave people PTSD. Like actually for real. I used to think it was laughable, but I talked in therapy about it and it's absolutely A Thing that people get disproportionately pissed off about things online and especially triggered by anything that reminds them of their old platforms because of constant trauma from needing to defend themselves and their existence, because Twitter was/is essentially an experiment in psychological abuse at scale.
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@twinkle @sierrashark A lot of people need therapy. I think Twitter legit gave people PTSD. Like actually for real. I used to think it was laughable, but I talked in therapy about it and it's absolutely A Thing that people get disproportionately pissed off about things online and especially triggered by anything that reminds them of their old platforms because of constant trauma from needing to defend themselves and their existence, because Twitter was/is essentially an experiment in psychological abuse at scale.
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You know it's wild how everyone swore up and down quote posts would cause the end of the Fedi. Like it was more of a reaction than post edits (which people freaked out over, too).
Yet so many instances have had it for ages and the sky, remarkably, has not fallen.
@Elizafox i was wrong!
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You know it's wild how everyone swore up and down quote posts would cause the end of the Fedi. Like it was more of a reaction than post edits (which people freaked out over, too).
Yet so many instances have had it for ages and the sky, remarkably, has not fallen.
@Elizafox and conversely everyone who was swearing on QT being *THE* missing feature that would bring everyone to the Fedi has yet failed to explain why we haven't seen any significant growth.
(That being said, I have seen plenty of useless uses of QT that are exactly as annoying as I had forecasted, so at least for me, I was spot on about how it would go.)
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@Elizafox and conversely everyone who was swearing on QT being *THE* missing feature that would bring everyone to the Fedi has yet failed to explain why we haven't seen any significant growth.
(That being said, I have seen plenty of useless uses of QT that are exactly as annoying as I had forecasted, so at least for me, I was spot on about how it would go.)
@oblomov Do you know why it hasn't had explosive growth?
IMO:
0) It is hostile to normal people on a cultural level
1) "What instance do I use"
2) Instances dying
3) Shitty T&S game that very much depends on your instance admin, and what kind of abuse your instance admin tolerates (some will tolerate it from the "right" crowd for the "right" reasons)
4) You still can't use Fedi like a normal person without it being weird. Someone will start demanding you CW topics they consider normal (giving the perception that basically this platform is used by weirdos... which it is... but also the perception that it is hostile to difference... which it can be at times). You can't talk about politics. In trying to be a safer place, it has ironically become *unsafe* to normal expectations of "I just wanna talk about the Zeitgeist and not have a Communist tell me about the labour theory of value but wrongly"
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@oblomov Do you know why it hasn't had explosive growth?
IMO:
0) It is hostile to normal people on a cultural level
1) "What instance do I use"
2) Instances dying
3) Shitty T&S game that very much depends on your instance admin, and what kind of abuse your instance admin tolerates (some will tolerate it from the "right" crowd for the "right" reasons)
4) You still can't use Fedi like a normal person without it being weird. Someone will start demanding you CW topics they consider normal (giving the perception that basically this platform is used by weirdos... which it is... but also the perception that it is hostile to difference... which it can be at times). You can't talk about politics. In trying to be a safer place, it has ironically become *unsafe* to normal expectations of "I just wanna talk about the Zeitgeist and not have a Communist tell me about the labour theory of value but wrongly"
@Elizafox and that's why I dislike people putting pressure on Mastodon developers to implement toxic or useless features cloned from commercial silos as if they were the reason.