oh, yeah, and the nature of character-limited posts plus the destruction of any meaningful long-form community means that if you want to express something that doesn't fit in 140-- er, 280-- er, 500 minus cw content -- characters, get ready to make a deluge of posts and flood everyone's timeline with inane crap they don't care about because they've seen it 20 times from you already
condolences
@Xkeeper someone made an interesting interface to the fediverse the other day: https://puckipedia.com/f66d89ff/i-made-a-forum
i wonder if doing that, and then combining posts like threadreader might be able to get rid of some of these problems..?
it would turn into a hybrid forum where the topics are still only by people you follow, or are on the same instance as, but also make threads more intelligible and rare posts harder to miss
there's still the mentality difference in what gets posted, but maybe it's a start?
@thingywott it feels a lot like this is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole; we already /have/ forums and such, that technology never died, it just got abandoned. trying to stuff this into it feels like a band-aid more than anything...
@Xkeeper you're not wrong
it wasn't really a serious attempt to do anything, but kinda interesting with how it compared to feed-based social media
i actually came from a pretty small forum too! but eventually the only thing i ever did on there was peruse new posts page and skip over a slew of things i didn't care for
forums have a lot of strengths, but having one that exclusively pertains to your interests is sometimes hard to come by, which was why i found a hybrid kinda interesting
@Xkeeper what i mean is, while only seeing the newest things without regard for their value or affect on your mental health is Actually Very Bad, one thing that places like birdsite (or even reddit) have on other social media is the ability to curate topics and people that are interesting to you
it's a pretty killer feature, but is it worth all of the drawbacks that come with the way it was implemented?
for me, the answer varies depending on the day--but i know we can do better then that!
@Xkeeper
it's too bad that the idea of subscribing to your interests was implemented in a way that can often be seen as a step back from more general boards and forums
but if there was something that combined the good ideas from both styles of social media, what would it look like?