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!
The only instances I’m familiar with that disable downvotes are Hexbear and Beehaw, which are hives of scum and villainy
the 'bins do not federate their ‘down votes’ either, which bothers me.