I'm seeing some posts in my timeline by people who are fed up with the Mozilla drama, and I get it.
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I'm seeing some posts in my timeline by people who are fed up with the Mozilla drama, and I get it. Microblogging and this "we YOLO everything into a global context" is shit. It's pure and utter garbage that makes it impossible to avoid things that annoy you.
I kept mentioning forums lately because I'm on some kind of nostalgia trip, and if you're expecting me to say that they didn't have this problem, then you'd be absolutely right. HOWEVER, they do have disadvantages.
What makes microblogging so enticing is the way lower friction. You can just post whatever comes to your mind, and that's it. I don't think you could lower the barrier any further since it's already lying on the ground.
The reason why it was easier to avoid unwanted topics on forums is that they had structure. Structure that's completely missing on here. We have hashtags at best, but they're too ad-hoc to be of much use and they won't fix the "everything is global" thing.
How could microblogging be fixed? I'm not sure. The fact of the matter is that any attempt to add structure means pushing up the barrier, and people are amazingly resistant to improvements if they mean extra work. If we add the ability to have multiple timelines, you can be sure a lot of people will set up just one called "everything lmao" and defeat the whole purpose.
Structuring in forums only worked because there was a staff to firmly enforce it, but the volume of posts with microblogging is orders of magnitude higher. We can't expect moderators to look at every single post and make sure it has the right metadata. So what could even be done? -
I'm seeing some posts in my timeline by people who are fed up with the Mozilla drama, and I get it. Microblogging and this "we YOLO everything into a global context" is shit. It's pure and utter garbage that makes it impossible to avoid things that annoy you.
I kept mentioning forums lately because I'm on some kind of nostalgia trip, and if you're expecting me to say that they didn't have this problem, then you'd be absolutely right. HOWEVER, they do have disadvantages.
What makes microblogging so enticing is the way lower friction. You can just post whatever comes to your mind, and that's it. I don't think you could lower the barrier any further since it's already lying on the ground.
The reason why it was easier to avoid unwanted topics on forums is that they had structure. Structure that's completely missing on here. We have hashtags at best, but they're too ad-hoc to be of much use and they won't fix the "everything is global" thing.
How could microblogging be fixed? I'm not sure. The fact of the matter is that any attempt to add structure means pushing up the barrier, and people are amazingly resistant to improvements if they mean extra work. If we add the ability to have multiple timelines, you can be sure a lot of people will set up just one called "everything lmao" and defeat the whole purpose.
Structuring in forums only worked because there was a staff to firmly enforce it, but the volume of posts with microblogging is orders of magnitude higher. We can't expect moderators to look at every single post and make sure it has the right metadata. So what could even be done?@volpeon My first thought (a half-baked take to be sure) is forced post categorizing. Like hashtags or CWs, but you are required to have at least one. That would make it closer to posting to topics on forums, and easier to filter or ignore certain categories.
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@volpeon My first thought (a half-baked take to be sure) is forced post categorizing. Like hashtags or CWs, but you are required to have at least one. That would make it closer to posting to topics on forums, and easier to filter or ignore certain categories.
@faoluin And this is where the last part of my post comes in: How would you enforce proper use of categories consistently? It worked with forums because activity was way lower and that gave the staff time to act, but on here going to sleep would lead to a huge backlog and nobody would last long under these circumstances.
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@volpeon My first thought (a half-baked take to be sure) is forced post categorizing. Like hashtags or CWs, but you are required to have at least one. That would make it closer to posting to topics on forums, and easier to filter or ignore certain categories.
@faoluin @volpeon yeah like. you post your messages to 1 or more "channels" always. like the # furry channel or the # tf channel
hashtags right now are kind of a combination of """channel"""s and tagging but it'd make way more sense to separate them
like for hashtags i tend to ask the question of "would the # <whatever> fandom like to see this post", would people explicitly following this hashtag be interested in this
but like theres such a big difference between doing # glasses because you're talking about glasses or doing # glasses because the furry you drew happens to be wearing glasses and you're tagging it as such
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I'm seeing some posts in my timeline by people who are fed up with the Mozilla drama, and I get it. Microblogging and this "we YOLO everything into a global context" is shit. It's pure and utter garbage that makes it impossible to avoid things that annoy you.
I kept mentioning forums lately because I'm on some kind of nostalgia trip, and if you're expecting me to say that they didn't have this problem, then you'd be absolutely right. HOWEVER, they do have disadvantages.
What makes microblogging so enticing is the way lower friction. You can just post whatever comes to your mind, and that's it. I don't think you could lower the barrier any further since it's already lying on the ground.
The reason why it was easier to avoid unwanted topics on forums is that they had structure. Structure that's completely missing on here. We have hashtags at best, but they're too ad-hoc to be of much use and they won't fix the "everything is global" thing.
How could microblogging be fixed? I'm not sure. The fact of the matter is that any attempt to add structure means pushing up the barrier, and people are amazingly resistant to improvements if they mean extra work. If we add the ability to have multiple timelines, you can be sure a lot of people will set up just one called "everything lmao" and defeat the whole purpose.
Structuring in forums only worked because there was a staff to firmly enforce it, but the volume of posts with microblogging is orders of magnitude higher. We can't expect moderators to look at every single post and make sure it has the right metadata. So what could even be done?@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip The Mastodon network could implement a AI which adds the right hashtags and pic descriptions. As Mastodon users don't do that the AI could have no opt out.
Seriously, nothing as Mastodon is the leading Fediverse software and is only a cheap low quality copy of Twitter. And never planned to be more.
If you seriously want to do something, take some people and write something new. -
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