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Good attempt at making sense of social media in the post-Twitter era: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon

I've tried POSSE a few times in the past, but I always find it's too deficient in the 'social' aspect. The way I try to cope is to choose *which* social media platforms I engage in — I chose Mastodon and (to a lesser extent) Bluesky; and I dropped X and Threads, because they don't align with my web values (ref https://cybercultural.com/p/web-values/). I still use LinkedIn, as it has an entirely diff purpose.

Tim Zee

@ilust606@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

@ricmac I like the sound of the phrase "post-Twitter era".
Though I've noticed that eras usually tend to do a gradual rather than an abrupt fade.

Richard MacManus

@ricmac@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

btw this is also the reason I don't think syndicating the same post to multiple social media platforms works these days — whether you do this via POSSE or using a tool like Hootsuite. You can kind of tell it's a post sent to various places, because it's not tailored to a certain community. Also, I find the people who do this often don't engage in some of the places the post ends up in — which feels rude to me. #YMMV

Al Abut

@alabut@techhub.social replied · 3 months ago

@ricmac that’s a good description of the POSSE vibe as opposed to the technical details. Constantly spraying blog posts across different platforms without engagement is like going around to house parties without actually talking to anyone, just handing out flyers for your own party.

Sean Tilley

@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org replied · 3 months ago

@ricmac Yeah, I agree for the most part. It’s kind of frustrating, though. I’ve tried to mitigate this with making the articles I write federated, and it works okay, but people often engage more with the microblogging account.

It’s also really time consuming to try to make a post go everywhere, in places where federation does not exist. I think I was running like 11 different accounts at one point, before simply feeling exhausted.

Julian Fietkau

@julian@fietkau.social replied · 3 months ago

@ricmac Sometimes when someone I've encountered here seems just barely interesting enough to follow and I need one additional little bit of info to push me in favor or against clicking the button, I like to glance at their “Replies” tab to see if they ever actually talk to people or if they're just here to broadcast. #FediConfession

Kevin + Drupal + Beard

@kreynen@fosstodon.org replied · 3 months ago

@ricmac what I hate is needing to reference something someone said in a thread I engaged in a few weeks ago. Even when I can find it, I end up thinking I'm experiencing the Mandella effect or censorhip when my comments aren't there. While the thread is basically what I remember people saying when I commented, I eventually realize that a version of the same conversation (often with some of the same people) also happened in another walled garden.

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