Watching a video interview about The Death Of Casual Posting, and it's interesting so far!
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Watching a video interview about The Death Of Casual Posting, and it's interesting so far! No mention of Mastodon or Fedi so far, halfway through the vid.
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Watching a video interview about The Death Of Casual Posting, and it's interesting so far! No mention of Mastodon or Fedi so far, halfway through the vid.
"One thing that I loved about early social media was this peek into people's lives that wasn't so curated"
"Yeah what I miss in this scenario is not just people casually posting their lives but like, intellectual people casually having conversations in public - like the academics, the researchers, the policy people, were all chattering out loud in a much less guarded way"
"The intimacy that social media promised is gone, it's vanishing in front of us"
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"One thing that I loved about early social media was this peek into people's lives that wasn't so curated"
"Yeah what I miss in this scenario is not just people casually posting their lives but like, intellectual people casually having conversations in public - like the academics, the researchers, the policy people, were all chattering out loud in a much less guarded way"
"The intimacy that social media promised is gone, it's vanishing in front of us"
@JenJen I was going to ask what "casual posting" meant but I guess they just mean... regular posting as opposed to marketing? The regular posting that's still alive and well around here?
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"One thing that I loved about early social media was this peek into people's lives that wasn't so curated"
"Yeah what I miss in this scenario is not just people casually posting their lives but like, intellectual people casually having conversations in public - like the academics, the researchers, the policy people, were all chattering out loud in a much less guarded way"
"The intimacy that social media promised is gone, it's vanishing in front of us"
I'm really happy they talked about blogs and newsletters - and heck, I'll even take the mention of Bluesky (even though they said it was "a smaller space"), but was a bit sad that Masto didn't get a mention at all.
This is really the least stressful place for me to post publicly. No ads, no algorithm, people are generally chill, lots of people use CWs, and there is SO MUCH SHITPOSTING HERE. This really is a blessed space!
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@JenJen I was going to ask what "casual posting" meant but I guess they just mean... regular posting as opposed to marketing? The regular posting that's still alive and well around here?
@eishiya Yes! Exactly. Just people having a chat, maying showing some pics from their day to day life - talking about what coffee they just had. You know, what the old people used to do on the internet before algorithms happened XD
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@eishiya Yes! Exactly. Just people having a chat, maying showing some pics from their day to day life - talking about what coffee they just had. You know, what the old people used to do on the internet before algorithms happened XD
@JenJen The idea of that needing a special term is wild to me because people never stopped doing that in my experience. Maybe I just keep leaving places just before they stop having people do that, but I suspect more likely I just don't surround myself with people who do the other thing. Even Twitter for me was still full of people just talking normally when I left in 2018.
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@JenJen The idea of that needing a special term is wild to me because people never stopped doing that in my experience. Maybe I just keep leaving places just before they stop having people do that, but I suspect more likely I just don't surround myself with people who do the other thing. Even Twitter for me was still full of people just talking normally when I left in 2018.
@eishiya @JenJen
agreed. This is why I dislike this kind of takes (there's a similar one making the around about the nature of the world wide web, but I'm too lazy to go find the link now). These spaces are what we make of them. At most, one can complain that it might be harder in certain contexts than others (e.g. on Twitter itself, you had both an algorithmic timeline and chronological follows-only timeline, never coming across any of the issues typically reinforced by the alg).1/2
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@eishiya @JenJen
agreed. This is why I dislike this kind of takes (there's a similar one making the around about the nature of the world wide web, but I'm too lazy to go find the link now). These spaces are what we make of them. At most, one can complain that it might be harder in certain contexts than others (e.g. on Twitter itself, you had both an algorithmic timeline and chronological follows-only timeline, never coming across any of the issues typically reinforced by the alg).1/2
@eishiya @JenJen if the video really ends up not mentioning the Fediverse or Mastodon at all, it also makes me doubtful about the editorial choices behind it, especially given that the author does have an account (not as active as it used to be). And again, AFAIK she never used it for casual posting either (no idea if she has a separate “personal” account for that though).
It's a choice.
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