Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself? ( kbin.social )

nicetriangle , 11 months ago

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danhakimi OP , 11 months ago

A ton of the artists I follow on IG

You missed my point. They're not on IG to bitch about IG, they're on IG to talk about art and they're bitching about IG on the side. They're ostensibly there to share their art, and that's why you follow them, right?

And yeah, some people go there to teach you how to be an influencer, but we're all aware that they irredeemably suck.

nicetriangle , 11 months ago

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danhakimi OP , 11 months ago

I don't think most people who are new to the fediverse really want to see three dozen threads about the fediverse as they scroll. I couldn't possibly convince somebody to join the fediverse to talk about fashion, because there's nobody here talking about fashion, it's like going to a baseball stadium to talk about library science.

People are going to Threads instead. When I point out how shitty Threads is and how people should use Mastodon instead, they say, "you're right! Threads is shitty! I'm gonna go use threads." Because threads is a social network and mastodon is a theory.

moopet , 11 months ago

In my experience which is worth one (1) datapoint, people talk about all sorts of stuff.

Yes, people do talk about the fediverse as part of it, but usually it's about how we can make it better rather than how our corporate overlords have made it worse.

And I'd say that fediverse metacontent is less than 1% of my feed, so it's not universal, it's very much down to how you set things up.

Places like kbin will get more because they're newer. I'm not on Threads or Blue sky or whatever but I imagine a lot of the chat there is about their own shiny new thing as well.