I can’t stand so many things about the twitter style of social media.
Based around following people: not communities or topics. If I follow a person, I have to see all of their posts no matter how unimportant to me it is. I might like a person’s input on star trek, I really don’t care if they’re drinking their second red bull that morning.
There are tags, but no voting, no sorting, and no moderation, so they’re mostly garbage.
No way to see what’s popular: or sorting based on voting whatsoever. Updates stream in, which means you can’t subscribe to more than a few people unless you want your entire day to be gone.
Length-limited content emphasizes gotcha soundbytes, and not discussion.
No tree-based commenting: meaning I have to click into a lot of threads just to see replies.
Related to your first point: that’s why I believe the Peertube’s aproach (and old Deviantart’s too) is the best: every user has a single account, but they can have many “channels”/streams/folders/tags that you can follow. That way, you can follow someone’s specific content and not everything they do. I think tumblr did/does the same too, in addition to allowing you to follow tags.
Related to the first thing: your saying that makes me realize I enjoy person-centric social media more than content-centric social media, and it does make me wonder how a platform can promote the best of both worlds. (idle general speculation, not lemmy-dev-content)
Most of my Mastodon content is “personal” in the sense that it’s idle chatter / bad jokes that I want to share with internet friends–but then I have a few posts that are more boostable like “here’s a blog post about how to do X”. Ideally, I’d want to be able to add that to a community/topic after I’d made the original post, since it’s typically only then I realize something fits (one thing that Instagram gets credit for is counting tags from comments, which allows this after-the-fact organization).
At some point we want to add user following to lemmy, so we can plug into the rest of the fediverse. So you’d see both user and community posts on your main feed.
The only one I know that gets this right, is unfortunately facebook. They have both the typical user / friend following, but also facebook groups, which can be very large and get a lot of posts.
I don’t really follow a whole lot of social media, so I didn’t really see it that way. But now I can kinda see why FB is still so popular. Looking forward to what lemmy becomes!
AFAIK, some instances have a way to view popular posts on the “/explore” page. The instance I just migrated from had it, but the one I am on now doesn’t, so it isn’t all of them.
On the first point, I very much agree. The problem becomes, will these “topics” as Twitter calls them have to be handmade by the admins, or will it be done with AI? And how would it be done?
On the third point, certain instances have a trending section, and even for those that don’t, you can still see what’s trending in Fedilab.
I can’t stand so many things about the twitter style of social media.
Related to your first point: that’s why I believe the Peertube’s aproach (and old Deviantart’s too) is the best: every user has a single account, but they can have many “channels”/streams/folders/tags that you can follow. That way, you can follow someone’s specific content and not everything they do. I think tumblr did/does the same too, in addition to allowing you to follow tags.
a more simple system :
Hmm… It does work as folders and channels in other platforms and it is very simple. The biggest con I find is that many people like to tag a lot :/
Related to the first thing: your saying that makes me realize I enjoy person-centric social media more than content-centric social media, and it does make me wonder how a platform can promote the best of both worlds. (idle general speculation, not lemmy-dev-content)
Most of my Mastodon content is “personal” in the sense that it’s idle chatter / bad jokes that I want to share with internet friends–but then I have a few posts that are more boostable like “here’s a blog post about how to do X”. Ideally, I’d want to be able to add that to a community/topic after I’d made the original post, since it’s typically only then I realize something fits (one thing that Instagram gets credit for is counting tags from comments, which allows this after-the-fact organization).
At some point we want to add user following to lemmy, so we can plug into the rest of the fediverse. So you’d see both user and community posts on your main feed.
The only one I know that gets this right, is unfortunately facebook. They have both the typical user / friend following, but also facebook groups, which can be very large and get a lot of posts.
I don’t really follow a whole lot of social media, so I didn’t really see it that way. But now I can kinda see why FB is still so popular. Looking forward to what lemmy becomes!
There is a risk of stalking with that. If you add it, make it possible to see who follows you or disable the option to be followed.
AFAIK, some instances have a way to view popular posts on the “/explore” page. The instance I just migrated from had it, but the one I am on now doesn’t, so it isn’t all of them.
On the first point, I very much agree. The problem becomes, will these “topics” as Twitter calls them have to be handmade by the admins, or will it be done with AI? And how would it be done?
On the third point, certain instances have a trending section, and even for those that don’t, you can still see what’s trending in Fedilab.