11-11-2022, 09:20 AM
Another off-topic discussion question.
Given the apparently imminent ... collapse? failure? bankruptcy? of Twitter, a lot of people are turning to mastodon. I am writing a mid-length article about it and I have been thinking on the topic of online communities for a while now.
It is interesting that there is such a strong and also siloed community built here and it seems kinda unique but OTOH I wouldn't know if others exist because I'm not part of them.
So I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on mastodon, and twitter and our place here.
I'm also curious, I think this site was started either before mastodon, or certainly before it grew meaningfully. The same *might* be true of Discord (or Matrix/Element) which is another common siloed community building tool.
But I also think this tool is a bit different. Mastodon doesn't really seem to enable threads or separate rooms. Discord is much more real time feeling, which I think probably would feel empty without sufficient users to fill a room.
Mastodon would also be less...siloed...we have conversations here that I don't really consider public, but mastodon is more public.
But maybe I'm wrong in my thinking here. What are your thoughts?
Given the apparently imminent ... collapse? failure? bankruptcy? of Twitter, a lot of people are turning to mastodon. I am writing a mid-length article about it and I have been thinking on the topic of online communities for a while now.
It is interesting that there is such a strong and also siloed community built here and it seems kinda unique but OTOH I wouldn't know if others exist because I'm not part of them.
So I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on mastodon, and twitter and our place here.
I'm also curious, I think this site was started either before mastodon, or certainly before it grew meaningfully. The same *might* be true of Discord (or Matrix/Element) which is another common siloed community building tool.
But I also think this tool is a bit different. Mastodon doesn't really seem to enable threads or separate rooms. Discord is much more real time feeling, which I think probably would feel empty without sufficient users to fill a room.
Mastodon would also be less...siloed...we have conversations here that I don't really consider public, but mastodon is more public.
But maybe I'm wrong in my thinking here. What are your thoughts?