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Oct. 28th, 2022 05:48 pmsomething interesting i've been noticing about people's Angst over twitter lately (me in the corner safely sandwiched between RSS feeds/discord/email/dreamwidth: [munches on popcorn, might be enjoying the schadenfreude]) is how the different kind of site ... UI friction? shapes who goes to what site.
like apparently (this is heard third-hand, your mileage may vary) young folks on ticktock find Ao3's lack of an algorithm much less dreamwidth utterly baffling at minimum to outright hostile. meanwhile? heck i count on dreamwidth's clunky friction as a feature-not-a-bug to keep people addicted to algorithms away. this whole move this past year of me fading away from social media was kind of hinged on that. my limited time hangin' on mastodon also def makes me aware of the specific kind of people who like that platform as well. (kind of, "super online" younger people who are techies who like the short format? it's a bit grating to me, personally, and I'll probably migrate off of it as soon as i can figure out how to follow private blogs via RSS.)
frankly, i was a bit spoiled with the folks on deviantart in my younger years being there for the art (and then slightly later, a little of creative-fandom) as well. but there's another example of how the UI of a gallery focus first acted as a filter for a type of personality.
so it's going to be sociologically interesting which ... generational slices inevitably migrate away from x platforms to y ones. the internet's fragmenting again, given how facebook/twitter have been eroding lately. there's been a trickle of a funnel of people getting tired of social media and building their personal sites; i'm hopeful we'll see more. but it's also tempered by the fact that it's a very rare/specific type of personality that would have the curiosity and self-gumption to knuckle down and learn code to get off of social media.)
(personally, that's another thing i count on, too. the folks who have that curiosity by and large tend to have a better grasp on reality vs fiction. not always! but by and large.)
like apparently (this is heard third-hand, your mileage may vary) young folks on ticktock find Ao3's lack of an algorithm much less dreamwidth utterly baffling at minimum to outright hostile. meanwhile? heck i count on dreamwidth's clunky friction as a feature-not-a-bug to keep people addicted to algorithms away. this whole move this past year of me fading away from social media was kind of hinged on that. my limited time hangin' on mastodon also def makes me aware of the specific kind of people who like that platform as well. (kind of, "super online" younger people who are techies who like the short format? it's a bit grating to me, personally, and I'll probably migrate off of it as soon as i can figure out how to follow private blogs via RSS.)
frankly, i was a bit spoiled with the folks on deviantart in my younger years being there for the art (and then slightly later, a little of creative-fandom) as well. but there's another example of how the UI of a gallery focus first acted as a filter for a type of personality.
so it's going to be sociologically interesting which ... generational slices inevitably migrate away from x platforms to y ones. the internet's fragmenting again, given how facebook/twitter have been eroding lately. there's been a trickle of a funnel of people getting tired of social media and building their personal sites; i'm hopeful we'll see more. but it's also tempered by the fact that it's a very rare/specific type of personality that would have the curiosity and self-gumption to knuckle down and learn code to get off of social media.)
(personally, that's another thing i count on, too. the folks who have that curiosity by and large tend to have a better grasp on reality vs fiction. not always! but by and large.)
