i think in many ways our problem in this community is that we thought we could take the concept of social media and participate in it at all
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the problem is, if i say 'back to web forums', or 'back to USENET' a lot of people here would ignore me or call me some sort of luddite
which is pretty revealing. tells you just how much self awareness the average user actually has here on the fedi
personally i'd say the worst things about this place is the gossiping and cancel culture of the most powerful mastodon accounts. the reverse of this is the sycophantism and enabling a lot of mastodon users show to these same accounts
@vidak Web forums suck ass, they're silos run by tinpot dictators with no public visibility, no account portability at all. USENET is dead for conversation, it's spam & uploads only now. Gopher, much as I love it, is not widely connected enough to replace social media or blogs.
Mastodon has problems, and website boy in particular, but this is the single best public posting thing available.