Yeah. Not only can you ignore social media RIGHT NOW, it’s quite possible the only way we save any part of humanity is to convince enough people to do just that.
On Twitter and Instagram you follow users. That’s user-first. You go there to see what so-and-so is saying, regardless of if it’s about cats or politics or their dinner plans.
Reddit, lemmy, and traditional web forums are content first. You go to the video games subforum to talk about games, and the sports forum to talk about sports. You often don’t even read the user names. You’re there for the content.
User-first stuff tends to incentivize bad behavior, I think. It becomes more about who’s saying it than what’s said.
User-first stuff tends to incentivize bad behavior, I think. It becomes more about who’s saying it than what’s said.
I don’t necessarily think it inherently incentivizes bad behavior, it’s just a different media paradigm. Think of bands promoting albums and shows, celebrities doing celebrity things, charitable accounts, etc. I can see what you’re saying with extremist wackos spewing their bullshit though, but that becomes a bit of a blanket. Different people come online for different purposes, and your average rando typically just wants to see cat videos and family photos.
Ehh I think celebrities is probably an example of why user-first is bad. They’re given too much weight. If Chris Evans wants to talk about the MCU he can post in an MCU forum. If he wants to go off about Israel, well he’s not an authority and we shouldn’t facilitate that halo effect of “well he’s famous so he’s probably smart”.
A band can have their own website and participate in communities for their genre/location/etc.
I’m painting with a broad brush but I think organizing by content rather than user is better in most cases.
It’s not social media if your accounts aren’t doxxable in either direction. People who know me in person and know I’m on Lemmy wouldn’t be able to figure out which account is mine, and people who encounter my account on Lemmy wouldn’t be able to figure out who I am out in the real world.
I guess I’m famous then.
Yeah. Not only can you ignore social media RIGHT NOW, it’s quite possible the only way we save any part of humanity is to convince enough people to do just that.
They said, on social media.
I mean, this isn’t a very social social media platform lol.
I have zero real friends on here.
Wait, maybe it is like social media.
It has already been concluded on another post that Lemmy is antisocial media.
The more downvotes you have, the more you win
Very often it’s the case.
I think content-first social media like forums is far less bad than user-first like Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Uhh…
Wut?
On Twitter and Instagram you follow users. That’s user-first. You go there to see what so-and-so is saying, regardless of if it’s about cats or politics or their dinner plans.
Reddit, lemmy, and traditional web forums are content first. You go to the video games subforum to talk about games, and the sports forum to talk about sports. You often don’t even read the user names. You’re there for the content.
User-first stuff tends to incentivize bad behavior, I think. It becomes more about who’s saying it than what’s said.
I don’t know because I’ve never used them but can’t you follow hash tags?
I think mastodon does that but not twitter
I don’t necessarily think it inherently incentivizes bad behavior, it’s just a different media paradigm. Think of bands promoting albums and shows, celebrities doing celebrity things, charitable accounts, etc. I can see what you’re saying with extremist wackos spewing their bullshit though, but that becomes a bit of a blanket. Different people come online for different purposes, and your average rando typically just wants to see cat videos and family photos.
Ehh I think celebrities is probably an example of why user-first is bad. They’re given too much weight. If Chris Evans wants to talk about the MCU he can post in an MCU forum. If he wants to go off about Israel, well he’s not an authority and we shouldn’t facilitate that halo effect of “well he’s famous so he’s probably smart”.
A band can have their own website and participate in communities for their genre/location/etc.
I’m painting with a broad brush but I think organizing by content rather than user is better in most cases.
It’s not social media if your accounts aren’t doxxable in either direction. People who know me in person and know I’m on Lemmy wouldn’t be able to figure out which account is mine, and people who encounter my account on Lemmy wouldn’t be able to figure out who I am out in the real world.
I totally agree with everything you’re saying, Steve.
Close, but I spell my name with a “ph” so it’s Phteven, or Phteve for short.
Same for Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, basically anywhere but Facebook.