yeah I feel this a lot.. mew

also tangental feeling relating to this https://toot.cat/@LottieVixen/110692979695055062

It works so much better as a platform for actual communication. On other platforms everyone seems to be either trying to go viral or avoid going viral... so as a result creating a carefully curated version of themselves for mass consumption.

Here folks just <are>

the ones that I've seen complaining the most are journalist/influencer types and, if you'll forgive the term, normies.

Folks that either want to shove their content in front of as many eyeballs as possible or folks that just want to take in content/news without having to think particularly hard about actually getting to know interesting people

maybe it’s a good sign that people are finding things that work for them and other people are like “no?!”?

The idea that there could be a universal social media platform is maybe actually just bad. Something that almost works for almost all people is probably worse, unless you’re a business selling it.

I love it for what it's meant for -- micro-blogging and communicating with people. I like the overall feel and atmosphere here a lot.

I think the people saying it "doesn't work" find what pain points the platform software does have for mass adoption to be too stifling.

I love what it represents as far as ownership though. It's software. Wanna spin up your own and have people follow you? Heck yeah, go for it. The email analogy clicks with me more and more.

yeah, there was a time where i had like 500 or so people following me on twitter? i swear most of them were bots or just never interacted...and as an artist it sucked 'cause like...it's like you become a content machine, and they only wanna see your work, not you ​

obviously i'm not anywhere near that "visible" here but shit feels genuine. prefer it waaaaaay more ​

“Works” from what criteria, though? I think people making those claims are thinking only about a single criterion, but there are a lot of things to consider that are all valuable.

I haven’t yet had a bad interaction on the fediverse, for one thing. My instance is well administrated by kind and competent folks, and the folks on the instances we’re federated with have been kind as well. It’s just a really nice place to talk to folks, so on that criterion, it’s working fantastically.

The main thing I miss is that it’s missing a lot of the people I like hearing from and talking to. A LOT of people, unfortunately. So to stay in touch with them, I have to keep other avenues active, including, unfortunately, bird site.

But it’s still good and nice to be able to take a sort of internet breather in the fediverse. I hope more people give it a shot, and I think as the fediverse gradually becomes less obtuse and birdsite becomes more of a hellhole, that will gradually occur.

Also it was nice to be able to just write this big-ass reply in one single piece instead of… what… five chained posts? I am a severe overexplainer and the software FGCN is currently running is an enabler, lmao

I get to see the people I follow, don't have to see people I don't follow based on some algorithm, and nobody has harassed me so far - in fact I have seen zero in-person bigotry at all!

Works much better.