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The platforms facilitate a kind of intellectual consumption moreso than conversation: conversations flow in one direction, from creator to audience, where the creator produces and the audience consumes. I think a better term for these platforms is “parasocial media”: they are optimized for creating parasocial relationships moreso than social relationships.
i strongly agree and with this post (and put it to words better than my scatterbrain could ever)
i'm having way more fun here and on mastodon than i've had on twitter for a long time and that's mostly because while the number of interactions is much lower, the quality of interactions is immeasureably higher and it makes me so happy to see comments and shares every time because like, you're talking to actual people and not just getting a like from default profile pic "johnshadowwolf239283"