microblogging is something used on a much more personal level while i think forum style social media is mostly for looking for answers and posting things you do, but microblogging social media sites are for that too. also, this is not meant to be offensive, but i think that since mastodon has been in the works for like a long time, it looks more polished than modern websites, so that can be an advantage it has
The fundamental flaw with microblogging is that people follow other people. Those people then spew a bunch of random posts on all sorts of topics. Very few people are consistently interesting, leading to a timeline / feed of random crap with a few nuggets of goodness scattered through it. This is unavoidable because of the person-follows-person architecture.
There are other pernicious effects that come from centering the individual. The narcissism, defensiveness, dunking are all enflamed, rewarded and promoted. Mastodon avoids some of this by not using a recommendation algorithm but the fundamental mistake of centering of the individual remains.
Also short-form content tends to be brainrot that destroys attention spans and reduces complex issues to bite-sized hand grenades to lob at The Other.
Combine hand grenades with narcissism and news/politics and the result is kinda predictable in hindsight.
I have absolutely zero interest in participating in any kind of social media that isn’t an “anonymous forum.” I have no interest in following particular individuals; I’m really only interested in having discussions with random internet users that share common interests. I used PhpBB instances, IRC, and before that BBS systems, and I’m really just looking for the same kind of experience.
So I will never use Mastodon; I think it’s a fantastic alternative to Xitter, but the format just doesn’t interest me in the slightest.
I think I’m very similar to you
I want to have a feed of topics I’m interested in, very rarely do I care about a specific individual, and the case that I do it’s probably because they’re a local restaurant or something like that, basically all I use Instagram for is a glorified photo menu for food I might want on a given weekend
Ditto. On top of that, I could not get into the tiny, tiny width of the “Twitter experience” with their web site. I don’t need mobile width pages on desktops.
Responsive Web Design… use it, implement it, never forget it.
phpBB was the best.
The old forums I frequent have all seen their activity drop, which sucks.
I prefer the smaller forums centred around common interests. I made a load of friends through those forums.
I quit reddit recently and it occurred to me that after 10 years, I didn’t make a single friend on reddit.
the threadiverse is group discussion. the twitterverse is ‘soapbox’, or ‘old man shouts into the void’
I love it though. I find it so much fun.
Although maybe I’d find forumming as fun as microblogging if the people here were nicer.
I mean, I get you. I really do. Given a choice between all of them? I choose NOSTR. Bc you can say whatever the fuck you want on there.
I feel the difference between them, and reason most ppl like/perfer Microblogging, is bc Microblogging has LESS RESTRICTIONS in comparison to forums.
So I do get that part. Who wants to follow a bunch of fuckin rules that some jackass on a power trip made? That’s no fun, people want and like having the freedom to express themselves.
Maybe that’s one reason why they’re more popular now.
threadiverse woa, i like group discussion but i guess you could have that in the uhhmmm twitterverse too tho
My biggest problem with microblogging sites is that I have never been able to get a good, interesting content feed out of them without also getting lots of noise. Following hashtags usually gives me a mountain of retweets (or whatever) and trying to follow groups of related people/subject matter experts gives me lots of irrelevant content. Community-style social media forces people to more strictly categorize their content, I think.
