Microblogging was a mistake. An attractive, candy-colored, addictive mistake.
Microblogging was a mistake.
An attractive, candy-colored, addictive mistake.
I will never actually implement it but sometimes I look at what the popularity of Twitter has done to the shapes of our conversations and I want to mandate a *minimum* post length here.
Mastodon's default limit of 500 is a start but not really enough. Every instance that raises the limit into the thousands of characters or beyond is doing a great thing by providing a way to wean people off of short, staccato exchanges and give them the opportunity for thought and nuance in a text box they have been trained to dump thoughts into. It looks short at first but it just keeps on growing and growing as your thought takes shape, and you can actually go back and *edit* the fucking thing.
But really I still miss when goddamn Livejournal was where all my online social shit happened. People could still be dicks on it, don't get me wrong! it wasn't set up to encourage and enforce hot takes, though; it wasn't built to make a ton of money by farming your outrage and stress and turning it into ad views!
(Which is really a problem with ALL modern social sites, everyone wants to become the next Zuckerfuck and there is no way to do that without strip-mining your users' attention. But I've sung that song more than once and don't care to sing it again today; I've got shit to do.)
(This post brought to you by watching a disagreement actually get *resolved* thanks to the power of replies that are long enough to have some fucking nuance, instead of blowing up into a multi-day shitstorm of too-short replies going back and forth.)
re: Microblogging was a mistake. An attractive, candy-colored, addictive mistake.
@anthracite You’re right! Buuuut the problem is that a lot of the Fedi doesn’t support updating / editing yet. Posting something to fedi is the equivalent of carving it into granite until Update becomes more widely supported. So that’s why for blog posts I’m gonna make them as normal blog posts and link them here. This can be the “comment section” so to speak. Is this ideal? y/n — No! But that’s where we’re at.
re: Microblogging was a mistake. An attractive, candy-colored, addictive mistake.
yeah god I wish Masto would fucking support it instead of the 'delete and repost' button, geez
all the youngsters are like "omg what if you edit to make people look like they are agreeing with something horrible" and, like, have an 'edited' note if you're worried about that ffs, we had editable posts back when forums ruled the earth and that was not a problem
re: Microblogging was a mistake. An attractive, candy-colored, addictive mistake.
@anthracite So much pain and misery could become avoided if we could say “You are right. Thank you for letting me know about that. I’ll edit the post”. There could be an edit history, IDK.