[HN Gopher] Of course the attention economy is threatened by the...
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Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse
Author : mpweiher
Score : 39 points
Date : 2023-01-20 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| luckylion wrote:
| Except it's not, as the article goes on to explain: he does not
| want attention, he's not part of the attention economy (any more,
| as he assures us), he just wants to hang out with people like
| him, of which there are "thousands, not millions".
|
| And the attention economy is "threatened" because "thousands"
| want to do something else?
|
| With these kinds of posts I always get the feeling that the
| people leaving Twitter (leaving, you hear me, I'M _LEAVING_ ) and
| swearing how they never wanted any of that attention economy
| thing and being the center of attention is the least of all
| things they'd ever want ... spend a lot of time being offended
| when someone suggests that their new favorite community will not
| replace Twitter. Twitter is no longer part of their identity, now
| Mastodon is, and therefore Twitter is old and terrible and people
| who don't think Mastodon is the greatest thing are doing it for
| bad reasons, and they must explain to everyone why that is.
| Because they must reassure themselves that they are right?
| kornhole wrote:
| The psychology of those heavily vested in the platforms is a
| constant curiosity of mine. Some complain repeatedly about all
| the problems with the platform that the fediverse solves but are
| seemingly trapped and hoping desperately that things will
| improve. Deep down they know they will not improve and struggle
| to face reality. The mentioned opinion piece in WAPO uses other
| distortions to justify maintaining the status quo. I can only
| suspect it is a combination of her personal situation and her
| employment.
| rapnie wrote:
| There's a bit of an Eternal September going on with Twitter
| 'refugees' pooring in, who loudly proclaim all the things they
| are missing from Twitter on Mastodon. I general all the
| discussion about the Fediverse and Social Media are full of
| generalizations. Fediverse before the rise in popularity had a
| couple million user accounts, and yes very very small when
| comparing to billion people platforms. But still like the
| population of a small country. Not everyone is complaining, or
| in culture wars, or alt-right, or extreme left, etc. The place
| is diverse and you can have a good time there, build your
| friend network. It takes a bit more effort to do so without the
| algorithms, but that can be a good thing.
| xiphias2 wrote:
| nostr is missing from the list.
|
| While Mastodon is much more well known, programming clients /
| servers based on nostr protocol is a lot of fun. I see people
| having different crazy ideas being implemented in a day, it's an
| addictive protocol to code against.
| pitched wrote:
| In case anyone else hadn't heard of this:
| https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr
|
| From only a few minutes of reading (so I might be off), it
| looks like if multicast packets were saved by routers and you
| could ask for tcp-style retries later.
| throwayyy479087 wrote:
| Fediverse articles read exactly like Crypto articles used to.
| It'll solve all your problems, all the time, the problem is the
| users are wrong.
|
| It's not gonna happen guys.
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