Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:33:35 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Hugh wrote the following post Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:10:32 +0100

Re-posting publicly because I accidentally did it followers-only and people have nicely asked if they can boost.

Home invasion - Mastodon's Eternal September begins

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion

:boost_ok:

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:09:23 +0100

івась тарасик

tivasyk@mastodon.social

#quote | «It's not entirely the Twitter people's fault. They've been taught to behave in certain ways. To chase likes and retweets/boosts. To promote themselves. To perform».

this is very accurate: taught (or rather motivated) to promote themselves.

nothing bad with that, it's what we all do in society to a certain degree… it's when this becomes _the_ goal in itself that things tend to go… where they are now with t. and a _lot_ of ppl will remain on t exactly for that… which is good ;-)

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:02:20 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@івась тарасик Yup. I see it in my own circle too: friends who were trained by Twitter to "need" as many followers as possible. One complained that there was no action... He had posted 6 messages in 8 days, and apparently that's enough on the birdsite to get a lot of interaction. Quantity over quality. He'll have to get used to a different world here on the Fediverse.