what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites

microblogging is something used on a much more personal level while i think forum style social media is mostly for looking for answers and posting things you do, but microblogging social media sites are for that too. also, this is not meant to be offensive, but i think that since mastodon has been in the works for like a long time, it looks more polished than modern websites, so that can be an advantage it has

Fizz,
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Microblogging is mature now and I think it sucks as a communication medium. I think discussion focused sites are a much healthier experience.

minyaen,

Started a post with a topic in the same ballpark:

lemmy.ml/post/24189598

TORFdot0,

I like mastodon a lot. I have basically found my hashtags, people and news sources to follow and so my feed is always filled with content to read. Engagement is fairly good on my instance, at least with popular topics.

But I only have 20 followers in 18 months of being on it so if that kind of thing is important to you then it can be something of a negative. Harder to build an audience without an algorithmic recommendation feature feeding your posts to strangers. I find that to be a positive though.

will_a113,

My biggest problem with microblogging sites is that I have never been able to get a good, interesting content feed out of them without also getting lots of noise. Following hashtags usually gives me a mountain of retweets (or whatever) and trying to follow groups of related people/subject matter experts gives me lots of irrelevant content. Community-style social media forces people to more strictly categorize their content, I think.

Alice,

Last sentence is so true. I feel the same overall

faeempress,
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Forums are for narrower topics or subject, while the world is your oyster when it comes to microblogging. I'd feel limited on a forum site, whereas here I can follow everything from gaming to dog posts.

rimu,
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The fundamental flaw with microblogging is that people follow other people. Those people then spew a bunch of random posts on all sorts of topics. Very few people are consistently interesting, leading to a timeline / feed of random crap with a few nuggets of goodness scattered through it. This is unavoidable because of the person-follows-person architecture.

There are other pernicious effects that come from centering the individual. The narcissism, defensiveness, dunking are all enflamed, rewarded and promoted. Mastodon avoids some of this by not using a recommendation algorithm but the fundamental mistake of centering of the individual remains.

Also short-form content tends to be brainrot that destroys attention spans and reduces complex issues to bite-sized hand grenades to lob at The Other.

Combine hand grenades with narcissism and news/politics and the result is kinda predictable in hindsight.

originalucifer,
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the threadiverse is group discussion. the twitterverse is 'soapbox', or 'old man shouts into the void'

adrianhooves,
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threadiverse woa, i like group discussion but i guess you could have that in the uhhmmm twitterverse too tho

originalucifer,
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yep. i use mbin on my instance, so i have access to both sides of the fediverse unlike lemmy.

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