Post AvcpPZzEi0M7m33WNM by joecardillo@federate.social
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 (DIR) Post #AvcpPJenQEUz81MyIK by joecardillo@federate.social
       2025-06-28T15:02:30Z
       
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       Been thinking about an essential good of the #fediverse and decentralized media Will thread, but idea = the dominant feed/algorithm model screws up our basic mental/emotional health (lots of research on this)This has me thinking about how #fediverse adds to our lives online/offline Randomness – admittedly, seeing a photo of a stunning flower or someone's beautiful crochet creation in the middle of politics is jarring, but that's also life... we ARE interrupted by these things.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvcpPKo39JUkh0hsMC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-06-29T14:27:28Z
       
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       @joecardillo > seeing a photo of a stunning flower or someone's beautiful crochet creation in the middle of politics is jarringMaybe it's my neurotype, but that's the opposite of jarring to me. I relish the random relief from the daily horror presented by such random acts of beauty. To me, the way the fediverse presents me with a scattering of other people's priorities, rather than feeding my own back to me until it becomes a customised rabbithole, is a feature, not a bug : P
       
 (DIR) Post #AvcpPRdfkILxsquBea by joecardillo@federate.social
       2025-06-28T15:07:07Z
       
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       Not always a CTA, end, or goal – I see so many people, myself including, who struggle with getting out of the "create X in Y way, if you want people to see/respond to it." Many of us get this intellectually, but tech billionaires have sunk the narrative so deep in our lives online, that it's hard to shake...Learning, exploring, messing up, these things can't really happen in that environment, and the fediverse helps us hit pause.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvcpPZzEi0M7m33WNM by joecardillo@federate.social
       2025-06-28T15:09:29Z
       
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       Room for medium and long-term thinking – the overall speed of algorithm dominated conversation sucks the life out of us, it compacts our souls into a flat file, makes us reduce things that need time & space to be understood or changed. We need slower stuff, we need to be able to feel 5 different ways about something, and to say "don't have enough info, this is gonna need some consideration."
       
 (DIR) Post #Avd5DGshVzMqJM9Tea by joecardillo@federate.social
       2025-06-29T17:24:30Z
       
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       @strypey That's a good add, I'll update that to "can be" Mentioned in another part of the thread, but, part of "every day there's a new thing you must do to please the algorithm" narrative is that it makes us more one dimensional...We are not one thing, each person contains multitudes, and that's a good thing
       
 (DIR) Post #AvdXqh6sjDwZfVN68W by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-06-29T22:45:21Z
       
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       @joecardillo > every day there's a new thing you must do to please the algorithm... is something I'm fascinated to learn about but never experienced, as I've never spent much time on platforms driven by recommendation models. I'm far too stubborn to adapt my publishing to the inscrutable requirements of a black box : P