@VaylLarkinPoet
A lot of people like that the fedi is a leafy suburb, a sleepy college town. They don't want to have the latest "tea" about rappers falling out on here. They can hardly tolerate people talking about sports.
And to me, this is just so short-sighted and sad. Twitter had many flaws but one of its strengths was that all kinds of people participated and this made it special. Twitter was better than the fedi at diversity. 5/
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@futurebird
I miss getting the tea via Bossip. I learned so many entertaining words and phrases. :blobcatlaugh:
@VaylLarkinPoet @futurebird but what if people come here to escape all that stuff. What if people aren't interested in those sorts of things?
@futurebird That’s so sad. One thing I genuinely loved about Twitter was how diverse in every direction it was. I miss KHive posts as much as I miss poetry posts (even the bad ones.) I kind of […]
2024-12-22 Remittancegirl ┃ 1👤
@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet It was actually pretty white and snooty at the beginning too, thought. It just feels like this time, we're running out of time.
And I hate sports, but I filter it […]
@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet I don't object to diversity, but I can't say I dislike the lack of sensationalism and commercial exploitation that comes with the attention a major #socialmedia […]
@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet These seem like insightful thoughts. I think, right now, that Twitter had something the fediverse never will: it was (more or less) the only game in town. It became […]
2024-12-22 futurebird ┃ 1👤 10💬
@VaylLarkinPoet
In the end I don't know what to do about it.
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