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i haven't used mastodon in a long time and i do wanna say a few words on why that i haven't really...said? twitter sucks. let's get that out of the way. i have a whole website on twitter sucking that i need to whack with a wrench until it's upgraded. hoWEvER i feel like too many people take "people actually have real, social interactions and are real there!" as a completely good thing while yes, this is good, and it doesn't have any downsides for say, people who aren't completely broken socially... i feel like mastodon makes it really easy to overwhelm yourself trying to get to know everyone there's a reason why it's so easy to make more friends than your brain can "actually handle" on twitter and facebook because people aren't always real when i go on twitter, it's so much easier to just stare at the screen and not really care about anything happening, because nobody's going to have an actual social interaction on twitter on mastodon, everyone is having social interactions in real time on a scrolling timeline that autoupdates and you have to process every single social connection and interaction and even singular posts are related to other people and there's i know this sounds weird, but there's too LITTLE noise compared to the signal it's like being in one of those completely and near-totally sound dampening rooms -- sure, it sounds great to have no outside noise but people regularly freak out in there when they're in there for too long because most brains are meant to have a low level of noise at the least ____________________ |
I see how that could be overwhelming, but I think it's a problem of trying to apply your twitter habits on Mastodon. I love Mastodon, and I love how easy it is to have a real interaction with another person. It's not just screaming into the void, it's talking to a few friends.
You might be trying to follow too many people? It's easy to do, but I think Mastodon really shines when you follow less than 100 people and actually try to get to know them. And when it does get to be too much (And yes, it still does, something something beaming information directly into your brain), it's very easy to just disconnect. Nothing pulls you back, except a conversation that will be waiting when you're ready for it. It's very refreshing.
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You might be trying to follow too many people? It's easy to do, but I think Mastodon really shines when you follow less than 100 people and actually try to get to know them. And when it does get to be too much (And yes, it still does, something something beaming information directly into your brain), it's very easy to just disconnect. Nothing pulls you back, except a conversation that will be waiting when you're ready for it. It's very refreshing.
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