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...and that's what comes back to me at the moment. We've all - me included - settled into a tech community mindset of passive consumption over the years - convenience over contribution - letting these services make shiny things that are easy to navigate, but confine responses to those of a 'user' - of entertainment, or amusement, or anger, or distraction - rather than someone involved in a contract of interaction.
I'm enjoying the feeling of having to forage again socially. It's healthy. //
@StephenMcGann agree. I've written here and on twitter about how the "home for everyone" may well prove to have been a blip. Seeing the different responses to my guide for creators has been fascinating.
Lots of people QTing it with "if I can't just click one button I'm gone"
Which is fair, but made me think about how digital citizens before, and to a certain extent kids now, are more comfortable with curating their experiences than the middle digital generation.
@StephenMcGann i looked at this place and thought: "okay, something between Usenet and Twitter. That could work."
But if all you've ever known is universal platforms - Facebook and Twitter - then you don't have that frame of reference. And that Frame of reference is part of what makes exploring and choice not feel scary.
I can see why without that the barrier to adopting something federated feels super-high.
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Pretty sure my friend @jacklowe would emphatically endorse that, Stephen, as do I. It feels exciting.
@StephenMcGann Completely agree. It's fun to have to click around and explore, figuring out how to make it work and how to make it the experience *you* want.