I think one of the things I hate the most about this rapidly changing social media landscape is that communally learning a new social interaction model is exhausting. Even one I theoretically like the design of, like cohost, is exhausting. Do I want to comment? Do I want to share and add to? I have no idea and nobody knows the social implications implicit in those actions yet the way we knew them elsewhere. Places like Discord have this problem droves because EVERY Discord server is a little different. I know so many people that don't ever want to join a new Discord. Is this the rest of human history? Do we settle on a good enough solution eventually, for long enough, to do something different than this endless shuffle? Does social media as a concept collapse for a while? I hope this isn't what I'm doing with my time every 5-10 years for the rest of my life.
Game programmer, designer, director; retired quadball player; antimeme; radical descriptivist; antilabel; Moose;
Working at Muse Games. Directed Embr, worked on Wildmender and Guns of Icarus, Making new secret stuffs
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