If the fediverse wants to survive, it has to spawn conversation. Otherwise, the numbers will never grow, and eventually, they will fizzle out. Echo chambers don’t last since people get bored easily when you can just macro the conversations.
Reddit and Twitter work on the model of causing outrage with downvotes to spawn people to the site to generate ad revenue. They spend a lot of time and effort allowing the outrage. That is how they generate revenue. Yet, it creates a very toxic environment and one that shouldn’t be duplicated.
Reddit likes the conversational equivalent of a first person shooter. As opposed to a polite tea party. Maybe we just need to separate the two. But every FPS fan wants to shoot up the tea party so it’s gotta be a pretty rigorous separation.
If the fediverse wants to survive, it has to spawn conversation. Otherwise, the numbers will never grow, and eventually, they will fizzle out. Echo chambers don’t last since people get bored easily when you can just macro the conversations.
Reddit and Twitter work on the model of causing outrage with downvotes to spawn people to the site to generate ad revenue. They spend a lot of time and effort allowing the outrage. That is how they generate revenue. Yet, it creates a very toxic environment and one that shouldn’t be duplicated.
Reddit likes the conversational equivalent of a first person shooter. As opposed to a polite tea party. Maybe we just need to separate the two. But every FPS fan wants to shoot up the tea party so it’s gotta be a pretty rigorous separation.
I think that is a very good analogy.