RussianDeepStateSock (@milkman76@med-mastodon.com)
med-mastodon.com
@silver_huskey@fandom.ink @majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com yeah, this. Im nb, a writer, tech worker, hard leftist, and I keep hearing (but not really seeing) this. Ive heard this identical thing for 8 years now, on and off, since the first large migration of users began, which threatened the large corporate networks who want ALL the data to train their "AI" with. That's right around the time when the "its too hard" and "its filled with racism" people showed up.

flashbang - "see, I've never personally seen this issue, and as we know the defining characteristic of being white is that your experiences are universal!"

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 days ago

    The Silver Huskey user states exactly why people are not going to use Mastodon over corporate social media. The confusing nature and lack of moderation compared to corporate platforms is why people will continue to use corporate platforms. This is what Silver Huskey said, for context:

    Had a bunch of my friends try Mastodon. Many of them found it confusing, and just left. I tried my best to explain it and even wrote tutorials. Only a handful stayed.

    Then others were run off because of anti-black racism. (A lot of Instances are just terrible. In my quest to find a home, I saw so many places using slurs. Hard R too.)

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      11 days ago

      the "confusing" thing i've never really got. like, i'm pretty dumb, and twitter confuses me. how is mastodon harder when it's doing a lot less in its interface to bombard and bamboozle?

      i think when people say "it's too confusing" they mean "it's exactly as confusing as any other new communication medium or online space, but i don't have an incentive to be confused for like a week until i pretty much get it because the kinds of posts i'd like to see aren't really on here." i think we're misinterpreting this complaint if we say that it's entirely or mostly a problem of interface design.

      i will admit that having to see a post on another instance and then go back to your instance (or log in to the popup window) to interact with it is a major pain point, but that alone doesn't explain much to me.

      • hypercracker
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        11 days ago

        I think you are probably right. Absent a killer recommendation algorithm people aren’t dopamine-incentivized to stick around. It took a while before my posts started getting more than zero likes on average.