It occurs to me anyway that making Fediverse apps in the shape and likeness of corporate media was a mistake. Even without the ever-present feed algorithms, people still post as though they are in an attention economy in these formats because they were conditioned to do so for years.
I understand that this was done to make adoption and migration easier, but I feel like the Fediverse ultimately needs to succeed on its own terms.
What would a format look like that beats corporate while being antagonist to the dopamine hell design?
Each post an intrecate explorable interactive webpage with cool secrets to find?
It occurs to me anyway that making Fediverse apps in the shape and likeness of corporate media was a mistake. Even without the ever-present feed algorithms, people still post as though they are in an attention economy in these formats because they were conditioned to do so for years.
I understand that this was done to make adoption and migration easier, but I feel like the Fediverse ultimately needs to succeed on its own terms.
What would a format look like that beats corporate while being antagonist to the dopamine hell design? Each post an intrecate explorable interactive webpage with cool secrets to find?
A chronologically sorted list of posts by the people I follow and nothing else.
So basically Mastodon? Just don’t follow any tags