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Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).

Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A fine brief on mastodon but it hardly "rewound" anything.

The fedi had been around long before mastodon and even facebook.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So... taking social media to something that existed before Facebook isn't rewinding?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they mean that fedi didn't take social media back because it never left. It's the users who went back.

Like if we all joined Myspace again we wouldn't say that Myspace rewound social media. People forget that the fediverse has been around a very long time, it's not new.

[–] can 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Older than Facebook and Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure if I would go as far as gp to claim older, but statusnet and ostatus which were early parts of the fediverse date from within a couple years of facebook's general availability. I would say the fediverse about as old as Facebook (2008 vs 2006, close enough?)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look it’s new to a lot of us ok??? 🫣