I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to “drive engagement” that I don’t think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.
Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I’ve had on profit-driven social media sites.
i feel like gamification will become more pronounced as more applications allow for more expression of the full AP protocol.
i think youre wrong about fediverse implementation. lemmy is already pushing for downvotes everywhere, the 'bins expose ‘reputation points’. gamification is somewhat inevitable as its a part of human nature, and seems to already be happening with or without ‘commercial social media’
i agree with the relaxed feeling but i havent used those commercial sites (cept reddit) in decades, i cant really relate. the verse feels very early reddit-y to me, which is what i wanted.
… no ads, just people and links and nonsense, hooray!
I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to “drive engagement” that I don’t think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.
Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I’ve had on profit-driven social media sites.
i feel like gamification will become more pronounced as more applications allow for more expression of the full AP protocol.
i think youre wrong about fediverse implementation. lemmy is already pushing for downvotes everywhere, the 'bins expose ‘reputation points’. gamification is somewhat inevitable as its a part of human nature, and seems to already be happening with or without ‘commercial social media’
i agree with the relaxed feeling but i havent used those commercial sites (cept reddit) in decades, i cant really relate. the verse feels very early reddit-y to me, which is what i wanted.
… no ads, just people and links and nonsense, hooray!