Is that a normal metric for monolithic social media?
Maybe not for you. For me, I use social media as a way to sew and cultivate personal relationships. Someone I know posts something interesting and I might pick up the phone and call them and talk about it or we discuss it the next time we see each other. Or maybe there’s a local event that someone shares and looks fun and I ask to join them.
That sounds lovely but it’s not been my experience of using social media (except Facebook). I’m not suggesting my experience is normal, or that yours is. I genuinely don’t know.
I couldn’t care less about what’s happening in the lives of celebrities or companies, or the unsupported political opinions of random strangers, but I guess I’m a weirdo in that way.
Almost all social apps are about algorithmic feed suggesting content from people you don’t know. Facebook is one of the few app that are still about personal connection. I can’t remember a single person i interacted with usernames on apps like lemmy
I threw up my own Pixelfed instance. It was awful. I’m much happier with GoToSocial.
Plus I’m yet to run into a single person I actually know IRL on the fedi.
Is that a normal metric for monolithic social media?
I…don’t know what that means?
Lemmy is optimal for chatting with random people. If I want to share personal things, I prefer to do that with people I actually know.
Monolithic as in Twitter, Reddit, Facebook - platforms that do not federate.
Maybe not for you. For me, I use social media as a way to sew and cultivate personal relationships. Someone I know posts something interesting and I might pick up the phone and call them and talk about it or we discuss it the next time we see each other. Or maybe there’s a local event that someone shares and looks fun and I ask to join them.
That sounds lovely but it’s not been my experience of using social media (except Facebook). I’m not suggesting my experience is normal, or that yours is. I genuinely don’t know.
I couldn’t care less about what’s happening in the lives of celebrities or companies, or the unsupported political opinions of random strangers, but I guess I’m a weirdo in that way.
I tend to use things like Pixelfed to find people interested in the same hobbies. Mastodon I use more for general nerding out.
I wasn’t intending to criticise your use-case. I don’t know what normal usage patterns look like.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to accuse you of that, just pointing out why I don’t care much for these types of platforms in general.
Almost all social apps are about algorithmic feed suggesting content from people you don’t know. Facebook is one of the few app that are still about personal connection. I can’t remember a single person i interacted with usernames on apps like lemmy
I mean, you could mention the fediverse to people you know IRL and get them to join.
But I’ve only done that a handful of times, quite ineffectively, so I can’t presume to judge you.
Same.