Flounce un-strategies I see so far
1. Using cosmetically similar thing as defeatured substitute and accepting degradation as idealism tax (40% Mastodon and FC exits)
2. Going to a topic/tribe silo and giving up twitter serendipity (Reddit, another 40% mastodon, FC)
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3. Genuine alt-paradigm feature curiosity about federation or protocols (last 20% of Mastodon and FC)
4. Exit to Republic of Letters (blogosphere and substack, localized host/guest network but giving up affordances of shared neutral territory)
5. Waldenponding (don’t replace)
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6. Invent new thing (eg Robin Sloan Spring83) that meets needs and hope it catches on. robinsloan.com/lab/specifying
7. Go full cozyweb (messenger DMs)
8. Exit to workflow media (Slack, Discord, StackOverflow, GitHub), give up playflows
9. Retire to LinkedIn or FB and die with them
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10. Stay on twitter but in undeclared subversive mode (with or without bluecheck)
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99% of flounces seem to be entirely knee-jerk and latching on to the first idea that seems okay. So far I see almost no strategic flouncing.
There is some very half-hearted coordination (tribes trying to pick the same mastodon mostly) but far short of strategy.
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To be clear, I do think there’s real cause for looking for alts and adopting them strategically, with conscious dopamine-loop habit resets. Unlike 2016 Trumpification this is more than a test of your capacity for drama. Muskification is clearly set to fundamentally change twitter
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It’s time anyway. All the major web2 feed platforms are now in harvest stage. Way overdue for a paradigm reset to a new kind of sociality. Never trust a social paradigm more than 15y old. The “feed” is now 15-20y old. The “indented thread” lasted 20y before that as the default.
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