Any social media that involves Followers are destined to be bin fires.
I tried mastodon, some of it is sweet, but eventually you voice a different opinion to someone with lots of followers, and get attacked by the tribe.
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iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I mean even Twitter sucked. I don’t get that platform. I just signed up for mastodon and am not sure I’m feeling that either.
I feel like these Twitter-style sites are just …like… Keyboard warriors. It’s just smug post after smug post.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 11 months ago
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly the format is good for stuff like quick business headlines and rumors that you could use as an input to your trading (basically free “squawk”, given that professional squawk services cost a lot). It’s also good to quickly spread the word during protests or similar.
But I agree that all of that is still offset with a huge amount of smugness and “ratio” competitions.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah that’s a fair summary. It’s brands doing announcements and ads, and people being assholes. Why would I be interested in either?
akaxaka@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All depends on who you follow. If you follow people who make stuff (art, software, etc) then you’ll find your feed a lot more upbeat.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Still, on another platform (such as Lemmy) they could make more meaningful posts.
scorpious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the whole point is that it gives media companies something to pretend is “news,” and everyone else something to be pretend-outraged over. Full stop.
Flamingflowerz@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm with you. Lots of randoms giving their opinions on something that other randoms can show their support for? Huh... alright, I guess.
finthechat@kbin.social 11 months ago
In its most ideal form, a microblog style site could literally provide an online version of a collective consciousness of society. It would be a live feed of normal people's thoughts.
Except in reality it's porn, smug posting, corporate advertising, vitriol, and propaganda all fueled by algorithms written to keep mofos scrolling.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It was good for two things: on the ground news, and speaking directly to businesses to resolve customer complaints.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which Elon ruined since most businesses are abandoning it. But man at one time if you complain on twitter and tag the company in it your problem would fix pretty fast. Doubt that would work today.
netburnr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which is dumb you have to take your support request public before you get sny sort of help
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
It really pisses me off that companies respond to Twitter posts but will ignore tickets and emails in their own support system.
iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah. I pretty much only used Twitter for live event updates.
TheBat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Porn, smug posting, and vitriol? Sounds like collective consciousness of society to me.
OscarRobin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You don’t get advertising or algorithmic crap on Mastodon, and they have reasonably reliable filters to hide most porn I think
oce@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Would the collective consciousness actually be interesting to read?