For a moment, I thought it would be nice to see something like this for the Fediverse, and it wouldn't even be that hard to build. But then I remembered... why would we want this? What are we trying to prove here? This kind of app is made for "influencers."
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-growth-bobbin/id6756035789
@rolle unfortunately I do believe we need them to make the fediverse grow and bring more people
you still have the choice to follow them or not
@mat Well by this point I'm sure they will not do anything about it. Their fucked up US laws prevent that.
"It turned out they couldn't do things because of their legal department, which was highly disappointing. I think the product they launched was promising, but it didn’t deliver to the very end. The whole concept of having federation behind an additional opt-in that people are not even aware of is not helpful, and there are a couple of details that are designed so carefully that it’s almost alienating"
https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/
@rolle I wasn't talking about Threads specifically but any future commercial platform that will want to join the fediverse
@rolle from the app description on the App Store: "Bobbin is designed to be a proven gamified helper that helps you build a healthy habit of posting"
"Healthy habit of posting."
Oh dear.
Yes, no, please no. We need to shift paradigm. From competition to cooperation. And this applies not only to social media, but to society as whole.
@rolle consistency tracking is something useful, but indeed I believe fediverse problems are more related to bringing people in (and keeping them) than engagement.
