microblogging is something used on a much more personal level while i think forum style social media is mostly for looking for answers and posting things you do, but microblogging social media sites are for that too. also, this is not meant to be offensive, but i think that since mastodon has been in the works for like a long time, it looks more polished than modern websites, so that can be an advantage it has
The fundamental flaw with microblogging is that people follow other people. Those people then spew a bunch of random posts on all sorts of topics. Very few people are consistently interesting, leading to a timeline / feed of random crap with a few nuggets of goodness scattered through it. This is unavoidable because of the person-follows-person architecture.
There are other pernicious effects that come from centering the individual. The narcissism, defensiveness, dunking are all enflamed, rewarded and promoted. Mastodon avoids some of this by not using a recommendation algorithm but the fundamental mistake of centering of the individual remains.
Also short-form content tends to be brainrot that destroys attention spans and reduces complex issues to bite-sized hand grenades to lob at The Other.
Combine hand grenades with narcissism and news/politics and the result is kinda predictable in hindsight.
the threadiverse is group discussion. the twitterverse is ‘soapbox’, or ‘old man shouts into the void’
threadiverse woa, i like group discussion but i guess you could have that in the uhhmmm twitterverse too tho
yep. i use mbin on my instance, so i have access to both sides of the fediverse unlike lemmy.
Yup. And i fucking hate Microblogging. Hate it so dam much. Man, there are new social media apps coming out all the time, and they ALL follow that fucking format. I can’t fucking stand it.
I love it though. I find it so much fun.
Although maybe I’d find forumming as fun as microblogging if the people here were nicer.
I mean, I get you. I really do. Given a choice between all of them? I choose NOSTR. Bc you can say whatever the fuck you want on there.
I feel the difference between them, and reason most ppl like/perfer Microblogging, is bc Microblogging has LESS RESTRICTIONS in comparison to forums.
So I do get that part. Who wants to follow a bunch of fuckin rules that some jackass on a power trip made? That’s no fun, people want and like having the freedom to express themselves.
Maybe that’s one reason why they’re more popular now.
Nostr is fine but I find the frontends to be janky. Plus there is some community bleed due to the bridges that have been created between Nostr and the Fediverse.
Forum software is best for asking questions and I’d ask more here but nobody would even read those questions if I did lol
Yea, they kinda are. But there’s a lot of them though. Freeser, whostr, and primal are easy on the eyes. I use amethyst though.
PSSHH! I would answer them! Lol there’s not much personal content on here bc of privacy concerns, so I don’t see AITA or Vent type of posts. Which are the ones I like.
Lemmy is mostly politics, Linux, techy, and web links.
My biggest problem with microblogging sites is that I have never been able to get a good, interesting content feed out of them without also getting lots of noise. Following hashtags usually gives me a mountain of retweets (or whatever) and trying to follow groups of related people/subject matter experts gives me lots of irrelevant content. Community-style social media forces people to more strictly categorize their content, I think.
Last sentence is so true. I feel the same overall
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Microblogging is mature now and I think it sucks as a communication medium. I think discussion focused sites are a much healthier experience.
Having a larger and more culturally, ideologically and demographically diverse community plays HEAVILY into that side of the Fedivere’s favor. I enjoy my time over there far more than over here. People here are extremely touchy and culty, while people over there seem pretty chill. I also think the frontends over there have matured better than the forum software, although we’re starting to catch up, and third-party frontends here absolutely outclass the default.
Compared to web-forum sites?
Half-dozen of one, 6 of the other, I’d say. It’s like they both don’t want to BE UseNET, but want the same federation and reach.
At least a few webfora tools work as mere WebUIs backing onto UseNET NNTP backbone, and that’s got the potential to use, preserve and extend the life of that protocol and interchange. But a federation that’s older than a few years may not get the love for shine that the neu protocols get.
Forums are for narrower topics or subject, while the world is your oyster when it comes to microblogging. I’d feel limited on a forum site, whereas here I can follow everything from gaming to dog posts.
I personally don’t value the microblogging format and never really gave it a shot. It’s just personal preference. In my opinion, the site format mechanically encourages low-effort junk, and there’s enough of that on sites like this. I only use microblogs as an inconvenient feed for specific niche news updates I can’t get elsewhere, like I would an RSS-type feed.
With that said, I support people posting on fediverse microblogging sites rather than on xitter or bluesky. I have to jump through a lot of moving hoops to even view xitter feeds without an account.
Started a post with a topic in the same ballpark:
