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1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2019 23:17:42 UTC switching.social

   • Eugen 💀
   • @tchambers@mastodon.social

   @Tchambers @nik @Gargron

   Twitter is designed to encourage interactions at all costs, especially thoughtlessly provocative interactions. People see something that outrages them incredibly easily (thanks to full text search, algos, trends etc), they reply instantly and the merry cycle begins again.

   Mastodon puts a bit more friction in the system (hashtag search, no algo, no trends), and hopefully so encourages more thoughtful actions. It's less convenient to find stuff, but that's the point?

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2019 23:23:10 UTC switching.social

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     • Eugen 💀
     • @tchambers@mastodon.social

     @Tchambers @nik @Gargron

     I'm wondering how many of the social problems we face on social media are down to lack of friction. It is so easy to get overwhelmed with people/posts to respond to and information to analyse.

     Humans perhaps aren't equipped to deal with this kind of situation. We have previous normally had up to 150 people we deal with in real life, and maybe a few dozen tv channels/newspapers/radio stations to sift through. Now we have millions of people and millions of channels 😱