I agree with that completely...except I think that articulates only half of the problem. The other part is a profit model that sells human attention. The supply is finite but elastic enough that you can design for a maladaptive increase.
Right. Which (semi-relatedly) explains why Mastodon will fail. It's sorted on something close to class boundaries, such that it's pretty homogeneous. And participating in multiple instances is taxing. And fundamentally, it's a less-slick twitter with a different license.
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Meanwhile, twitter is just the Frankenstein of an IR system, a MMORPGs, and Netflix. Hard to compete against directly, and I'm very actively trying to remind myself that so I don't make such a mistake.
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Re: mastodon, the “local main street” vibe of small instances is an antidote. It really is new and different, I think, because it is decoupled from capitalist incentives. It’s just hard to find the right mix of people and interests to compete with the dopamine hose of twitter.
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