This kind of thinking frustrates me, creating a good social media site/service should not be about inifinite growth or numbers games, it should be about creating a good and sustainable community, something so far I have only seen some of fedi try to do.
Commercial social media only cares about numbers, not sustainability nor creating a decent community.
I’m sorry but that is cope.
Imagine if someone said that in the time of telephone?
Oh sure you can’t call much of anyone who aren’t on your street but making a good telephone network isn’t about numbers and infinite growth.
We know of network effects and critical mass. It would have been great if mastodon could have resolved its unacceptable idiosyncrasies to capture the death of twitter. Looks like we now have to wait for the death of bluesky in 2036 for the next try.
Having a fast way of getting announcements to people is important. Everyone from the WHO to official government announcements to musicians with a new album to activists announce(d) things on Twitter. For that purpose the first and foremost thing is maximizing the reach of the announcement.
Now there are a myriad of better platforms for this (irc or a mastodon instance owned by the org) but quite frankly they will never have the same populations as bluesky or Twitter (in the short term) because they are a as you put it a “good” social media that isn’t just about infinite growth.
Be glad that the billionaire actively and openly trying to censor the world is losing out to the billionaore that will leave it alone and sell out again in decade or two. And on the side mastodon picks up the more traditional social media role among those in the know and maybe one day sustainable growth will make it the biggest fish and can take over from the replacement for the replacement of bluesky as the primary announcements channel.
This kind of thinking frustrates me, creating a good social media site/service should not be about inifinite growth or numbers games, it should be about creating a good and sustainable community, something so far I have only seen some of fedi try to do.
Commercial social media only cares about numbers, not sustainability nor creating a decent community.
I’m sorry but that is cope. Imagine if someone said that in the time of telephone?
Oh sure you can’t call much of anyone who aren’t on your street but making a good telephone network isn’t about numbers and infinite growth.
We know of network effects and critical mass. It would have been great if mastodon could have resolved its unacceptable idiosyncrasies to capture the death of twitter. Looks like we now have to wait for the death of bluesky in 2036 for the next try.
I find it funny that these takes are made on lemmy. Why aren’t you only on reddit? It’s much bigger and much easier to use than lemmy.
Because fuck /u/spez
Having a fast way of getting announcements to people is important. Everyone from the WHO to official government announcements to musicians with a new album to activists announce(d) things on Twitter. For that purpose the first and foremost thing is maximizing the reach of the announcement.
Now there are a myriad of better platforms for this (irc or a mastodon instance owned by the org) but quite frankly they will never have the same populations as bluesky or Twitter (in the short term) because they are a as you put it a “good” social media that isn’t just about infinite growth.
Be glad that the billionaire actively and openly trying to censor the world is losing out to the billionaore that will leave it alone and sell out again in decade or two. And on the side mastodon picks up the more traditional social media role among those in the know and maybe one day sustainable growth will make it the biggest fish and can take over from the replacement for the replacement of bluesky as the primary announcements channel.