I could never get used to that sort of app. Be it Twitter, bsky, or even mastodon. If I follow people, my feed gets so much content that I consider spam.
Say, there is a person that is awesome and occasionally posts interesting things. But also posts random spammy stuff, like “just took a shower. I feel so clean!”. Why am I wasting my time reading that sort of content?? I think there are 0 people in the world from which I want to read 100% of their content. Maybe very very very few. So, it doesn’t make much sense to follow people, and then waste hours scrolling content about which I don’t care.
I could follow tags, but they still get so much spam and so I still have to scroll and scroll…
Hasn’t these microblog services not just become an outlet for famous people i.e. actors, singers, models, politicians, influencers etc. and even government to post stuff? In some countries even the police use these platforms to communicate to the public even before using other outlets.
You can put your follows onto lists you can group by category on mastodon. My feed is literally my own posts and Technology Connections. If I want to see anyone else I follow I have to manually visit the lists.
I do the same on Lemmy. Smaller comms I’ll subscribe to, but busy ones (esp meme ones) I just add to favourites so I can check them manually and I don’t have an everlasting feed.
Same. Seems like a ton of people would actually like being cursed with telepathy that you can’t turn off, being forced to share and receive every thought that crosses the mind.
Are y’all me? I never did Twitter, tried blue sky, got followed by someone pretty famous, but I really couldn’t give a fuck less about it. Like you said, I don’t want to know someone’s every thought and action. Shit just isn’t important to me.
I could never get used to that sort of app. Be it Twitter, bsky, or even mastodon. If I follow people, my feed gets so much content that I consider spam.
Say, there is a person that is awesome and occasionally posts interesting things. But also posts random spammy stuff, like “just took a shower. I feel so clean!”. Why am I wasting my time reading that sort of content?? I think there are 0 people in the world from which I want to read 100% of their content. Maybe very very very few. So, it doesn’t make much sense to follow people, and then waste hours scrolling content about which I don’t care.
I could follow tags, but they still get so much spam and so I still have to scroll and scroll…
It is just not for me.
Hasn’t these microblog services not just become an outlet for famous people i.e. actors, singers, models, politicians, influencers etc. and even government to post stuff? In some countries even the police use these platforms to communicate to the public even before using other outlets.
You can put your follows onto lists you can group by category on mastodon. My feed is literally my own posts and Technology Connections. If I want to see anyone else I follow I have to manually visit the lists.
I do the same on Lemmy. Smaller comms I’ll subscribe to, but busy ones (esp meme ones) I just add to favourites so I can check them manually and I don’t have an everlasting feed.
Same. Seems like a ton of people would actually like being cursed with telepathy that you can’t turn off, being forced to share and receive every thought that crosses the mind.
Are y’all me? I never did Twitter, tried blue sky, got followed by someone pretty famous, but I really couldn’t give a fuck less about it. Like you said, I don’t want to know someone’s every thought and action. Shit just isn’t important to me.
I think it’s the whole parasocial relationship thing, where you think you’re close friends with someone who doesn’t know your name.