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   simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 22:44:38 JST simsa04
   Over in the Mastodon-network (a silo of its own), people keep doing the self-introduction thing. I find this idea rather befuddling, esp. when it comes to sharing personal info which we learnt we shouldn't do on the web.
   
   I think you can learn more about a person when you listen to her tone of voice, her manners, and only to some extent via her interests. With regard to the latter, an annotated list of my tags may suffice.
   
   #batteries (although in the context of infrastructure, energy, climate, less as hardware or essential building blocks but as objects on which people put their misguided hopes on)
   
   #counterculture (I went along with it for many years, now I primarily think about its negative impacts; historical interest)
   
   #drought (is more than "heat" a concern to me)
   
   #ecocolonialism (from the perspective of how Greens and Progressives offset environmental costs on poor nations when trying to jump-start their green economies)
   
   #energy (broad category, includes "renewables", "nuclear", often "infrasturcture")
   
   #federation (how its technical aspects create the conversations-based foundation of the Fediverse)
   
   #fediverse (history as well as present and future developments of something that is more than the Mastodon-network)
   
   #goodread (a corollary to "sources")
   
   #heat (rarely)
   
   #identica (history)
   
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     simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 22:38:20 JST simsa02

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     • es0mhi

     @es0mhi @simsa04
     A more or less brief answer, on a complex topic, belatedly:

     1. Another reason I find this self-introduction pointless is that users in their profiles already have the opportunity to introduce themselves. Adding more to that often means adding more interests, i.e., strengthening the overall tendency that micro-blogging is about *content* when it rather is about *people*. The reification of personhood is thus increased, not dimishied.

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     es0mhi@tilde.zone's status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 22:38:21 JST es0mhi

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     @simsa04

     This statement should trigger a much broader discussion than I have time for right now.

     Just a few brief remarks:

     I, too, find approaching people via interests rather clumsy. Outside the net, I am first interested in personality (I use this fuzzy term here on purpose) and only later try to find out via which interests someone has become that personality. Moreover, here in the fediverse it apparently leads to the fact that many create different accounts for their different interests. Which I refuse to do (until now).

     Since we can't "listen to the tone of a person's voice" here, don't necessarily learn about her mannors, the personality could be sensed in a different way. It would be helpful if people would express themselves more creatively. Simply boosting things, or spreading a link, a message, etc., is not enough. At some point, #GNUsocial was called 'statusnet' - an origin of which we hopefully emancipate ourselves - or not. Style would be of importance, style of writing, style of discussing. In a sharing culture, there is no room for style any more.

     I find 'personal info' sometimes helpful after all. You say that we have learned not to share it on the net. Well, I have also learned many things offline about what I shouldn't do - and do them anyway.

     simsa04 repeated this.