I’m with you. But just to clarify, I’m not talking about time per se but rather these opportunities where a platform like Substack or Twitter drops the ball. I worry they’ll be somewhat limited in the short-medium term.
Maybe I’m wrong and their occurrence is a symptom of some deeper shift that will persist until a new equilibrium is reached.
My fear though is that a fatigue will settle from this online discourse fracturing, and people will get tired of “moving” or keeping track of what new thing they’re supposed to join and realise, with a serious kernel of truth, that part of the point of online spaces is to pick one and stay there and build a culture there and standup for that place’s quality and resilience against whatever forces would seek to trash it.
If something like that settles in, I can see something like the fediverse getting a bad reputation as an ecosystem that misses the point of the whole thing with its shifting and fragile instances. Maybe I’m way wrong, but I’ve put this on my bingo card.
I’m with you. But just to clarify, I’m not talking about time per se but rather these opportunities where a platform like Substack or Twitter drops the ball. I worry they’ll be somewhat limited in the short-medium term.
Maybe I’m wrong and their occurrence is a symptom of some deeper shift that will persist until a new equilibrium is reached.
My fear though is that a fatigue will settle from this online discourse fracturing, and people will get tired of “moving” or keeping track of what new thing they’re supposed to join and realise, with a serious kernel of truth, that part of the point of online spaces is to pick one and stay there and build a culture there and standup for that place’s quality and resilience against whatever forces would seek to trash it.
If something like that settles in, I can see something like the fediverse getting a bad reputation as an ecosystem that misses the point of the whole thing with its shifting and fragile instances. Maybe I’m way wrong, but I’ve put this on my bingo card.