social network discourse
my sincerest wish for the discourse between bluesky, fedi, threads, and the husk of twitter, is this: i want people to realize that no single place will be The Universal Social Network.
social network discourse
twitter's whole deal was that it felt like where all the Important People were, and there were enough people with power there that it functionally was. but different social networks always ended up holding different demographics doing different things.
social network discourse
my pet theory is that federated social media - with defederation as easy as federation, and many allowlists - allows for a healthier behavior where multiple cliques and subgraphs of the social network exist and can interchange at their edges, and maybe that's good. i dno't know though
social network discourse
fundamentally all social networks will inevitably face the same problem by which facebook was brung low: people don't want to share a social context with their parents.
re: social network discourse
@mavica_again unfortunately their real name policy overshadowed anything else they tried, I can't remember anything about the experience of using circles cause fundamentally I don't use the same name with my friends and my parents
re: social network discourse
@stereo absolutely it was super ham-fisted. but they had a cool concept i don't think anyone else has tried since
re: social network discourse
@mavica_again Ditto - maybe not the best implementation, but I appreciated that you had better controls over who you were talking to.
re: social network discourse
@mavica_again honestly i didn't ever have a particularly good experience with them but i appreciate that at least they were trying