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   Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 01:57:21 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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   • Peter
   • Ken White

   @peter @Popehat trust me, I don't do social media for any kind of "dopamine" hit. But, I can only take so much of people yelling at me.

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 01:57:32 JST Peter

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     • Ken White

     fwiw this isn’t just about the last guy, @mmasnick did the same thing, and so did @Popehat

     people get on Mastodon to be influencers, they get annoyed by the number of dipshit reply-guys, plus there is no algorithm to give them that dopamine shot, then they leave, saying everyone here is insufferable. but really, it’s just not a good place to get dopamine from anonymous passive strangers. it’s a group chat with a handful of far-too-engaged weirdos. if that’s not what you’re into, go with god.

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 01:57:40 JST Peter

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     people really need to interrogate what social media is for. do you want to gather together a like-minded group of affirming, interesting people to share ideas with? you can totally do that! do you want to cast a wide net and try to connect with millions of strangers to influence as many people as possible? you can do that too, but fyi, it has some downsides!

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 01:57:49 JST Peter

     my take is that conversations with strangers on social media is a terrible, weird idea that dates from like 2006 and honestly no one should be doing that. if you want to broadcast, do that. should Mastodon have a broadcast mode? sure, why not! but i have **never**, **not once**, enjoyed the “conversation” when one of my posts have gone “viral” because anonymous strangers are stupid and mean, so I mute it. I’m a cis-het white guy and i **hate** interacting with randos!