Notices by not using mastodon (petercoffin@mastodon.social), page 2

Cultivated Identity to be officially canceled on December 1st, Peter Coffin is overjoyed at the prospect

@MnemonicLight @petercoffin I think people trying to pitch it as a 1:1 Twitter replacement are wrong, but only because they're equivocating without realizing it. What they mean is that Mastodon is like Old Twitter, the place where you talk to your friends and see what's up with their day.

It's radically different from New Twitter, the "news" app where you consume viral Content(tm) and current events and discourse until you're depressed.

Mastodon is more like an evolution of email.

@petercoffin with fantastic videos about the Purple Scare and the Stonewall Riots. I love what I've seen from Step Back and need to watch more of his videos

@dragon @petercoffin what i think this analysis hilights is:
a) while gamers are still responsible for their own behavior there *is* an outside system that encourages them to behave this way. investigating this system could yield some insights into how to disrupt it.
b) perpetuating this system does benefit big game developing companys, so they arent the best people to turn to for solutions. i still advice pressing them for solutions, but i think other strategies are necessary too

@dragon i really like @petercoffin analysis on this; in his words, 'gamer' is a cultivated identity that creates a competition of consuming video games (and video game related things). people who don't play video games or play less video games consequently rank lower in this competition, and are therefore are labeled 'inferior', so that the 'real' gamers can feel 'superior' for buying more video games

@petercoffin I agree that it's pretty off-putting but at the same time I get why they're doing it. Considering how much time we've collectively spent on centralized corporate social media, having an alternative that doesn't outright suck is an exciting prospect. I feel like folks are shedding a bit of their cynicism and in a way that's a good thing.