mcc
@mcc

I've been spending the last day imagining a site like Twitter or Mastodon or Facebook or whatever where posts are allowed to make noise as long as they are visible on screen, so that scrolling down a social media feed sounds like being in a Pachinko parlor.

This couldn't work on Cohost or Tumblr. The typical posts there are too long. The important thing about this idea is it has to be a service where you normally have 3-4 posts visible on screen at once, so that you never hear the ambience from only a single post at a time always several at once. (A corollary is that if somebody wants to just post a song for people to listen to they will have to write so much text about it that it fills an entire screen.)


tsiro
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One specific exception: On old computers, when a hard drive was being accessed there would be little clicks, and the more data was being read the denser the clicks would be. This actually gave you a lot of incidental feedback that suddenly your computer had started working very hard on something. (There are other indicators-- fan spinups, the very loud noises old apple floppy disks made-- but I always was fascinated by the clicks by how subtle they were and yet how much they told you.)