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  • There is an inherent problem with microblogging sites. They don’t help you understand anything. All they do is give you small blips of information, text, memes, short videos, drawings, pictures. You can’t state your full opinion and it is hard to be noticed or seen because most people don’t bother getting into any topic in detail. On the other hand, social news plafrorms - like Lemmy and Kbin and even Reddit - encourage dialogue and discourage toxicity.

    Microblogging has changed. Now, I much prefer talking about current events on a social news platform than on a microblogging platform. Right now microblogging sites are good for art or talking about general interests and things in your day-to-day life, maybe getting some news out of them (if the algorithm wants you to because algorithms suck when it comes to news, especially in a divided society such as this one), but not much more. Plus, the “balkanization” of microblogging with services like Tumblr, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon makes it so that you divert attention to different things in different places, while things like the threadiverse can be a hub for pretty much everything because information doesn’t flow as fast as on microblogging sites so you don’t lose attention very quickly.

    I understood the problems with attention span that plague Twitter long before the big switchover was even a thought, it’s just that I didn’t think of it too much back then.



  • Televise@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlI couldn't resist
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    1 year ago

    Threads when isolated from this community: GOOD.

    Threads when federated with this community: NOT GOOD.

    It is your choice whether to use it or not. The Fediverse is like the Linux of social media, I like it more here and on other fedi apps than on the corporate social media.