>I don’t know why people freak out about the guy. I can understand a personality clash but people just lose their entire shit over him. I ain’t see the guy do anything but cool shit.
People freak out about graf because he’s got a lot of clout and he can be a massive cunt sometimes. That he’s so fast to defederate when you fuck with him adds to this.
I really want this graf crap to go away already, but all of the people I chose to follow are wrapped up in Poast-related drama. Like 80% of the fediverse is just drama about the fediverse. I wanted it to be a place where you can post about your interests and your project accomplishments, and maybe say naughty words while you’re at it because it’s funny, and have some frank political discussions.
But that isn’t what it is. The fediverse is mostly just gossip and other such bullshit. I’m guilty of it, too. And I’m guilty of it in no small part because it’s the only thing that gets any engagement. I could write the next Great American Novel, and it would get fewer replies than some low-effort post of me calling bot a cunt or graf a faggot.
Like I said, I’m losing patience.
>I think I’ve said it before but this is what happens literally every time a community is not centered around a topic.
This is why I insist that instances should be topic- or community-oriented. Instead, we have instances that are just instances, floating places to insert your content here in the void.
>There is literally no reason to produce “content”, there is a reason to converse.
Hard disagree. I wish people posted more content – illustrations they made, novels they wrote, vidya code they wrote, etc – as opposed to people just posting their opinions and shit. It’s kind of why I’ve gotten a bit disillusioned with fedi lately; the culture that has naturally emerged on it is not the one I want to participate in, even if I find the technology itself amazing.
Maybe I’ll start working on my own “content” and pushing that on fedi, and see if it goes anywhere, but I’m pretty doubtful. I’m going to focus more on that content generation soon, but what’s up for debate is if I post much of it online at all, including on fedi
>I don’t know what it means to see if it goes anywhere.
Well, this plays into the “engagement” thing. Let’s say I spend 100 hours on this beautiful painting. I post it on fedi and say, “Hey guys, check out what I made.” A day passes. Zero replies. Zero reacts. Nothing.
That’s a disheartening experience. So when you asked in that post “who cares about engagement?” I suppose the short answer is “I do.” I don’t want to feel like I’m pissing into the ocean to make it yellow. Without engagement, there’s an understanding that nobody gives a fuck. If nobody gives a fuck, I’ll still make that painting, I just won’t post it on websites – in this case, fediverse instances – that don’t give a fuck about it.
@p @NEETzsche @RustyCrab @bot @mastodonusercount @parker that ace attorney pic is hilarious and accurate