i think i'm using cohost wrong. my posts are too short!!! start making longer posts!! keep these to mastodon!!!!
or
i just don't understand social media at all!!
I mean, it's all so tiring. I've been thinking about leaving instagram and moving to pixelfed, or just put all my art on my site (but then no one would see it!)
Should I post longer written posts here? My webpage? Should I make a diaspora or something?
Back to the pixelfed thing. I've been told that activitypub is interoperatable. I don't think it's a very good thing, as it usually just-only-kind-of-works. Fedi fans seem to concentrate on the content, and forget about the presentation. There is a difference between an image in a twitter post and an instagram post, where it is put on a pedestal. It's in the center of attention. The image is the post. On twitter (or mastodon, or any of the 9999 twitter clones) it's presented as an addition to the post. Yes, you can see it in its whole glory, but the picture is given attention on the same level as the bunch of tags above/below it. This is one of main reasons I never really liked the experience of twitter for art.
Then again is ig really that much better? Art is more exposed, sure, but it still is just a small tiny piece of the CONTENT MACHINE, drowned inbetween memes and infographics.
ActivityPub (that's what the previous paragraph started with, remember?) is overall pretty limited. While lemmy (reddit for ubernerds) uses the protocol and could be used with, say, a mastodon account, the presentation for anything else than other lemmy instances is so WEIRD the last time i checked, I ended up just making another account (that's two accounts (yet) for the incredible network that requires just one account, with pixelfed it'd be three. i didn't even really toy around with peertube yet). it's honestly as if fedi nerds really only wanted to use their bazillion twitter clones (why are there so many! i think there are more options than there are unique features in all of them!)
I think that creating the ultimate "interoperable protocol for all social media", while sounding neat is just a pipe dream, holding onto which i think may end up just limiting the creativity of new possible social platforms which i think is a shame! i'm writing this on a tumblr clone (which still seems to be the most original one I've tried yet) and my choice would be a twitter clone or a blogging platform
- i am NOT a fedi nerd, or even a social media nerd. i don't know all the technical details on how the protocol works nor do i really care
- this honestly was in my notes as an idea for a blog post but honestly I don't think I'll ever get around to writing it so that's all you get, I'm removing it from the list lol