The New Yorker: " relearning what we need and want from our digital lives" - YES that's it
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Kyle Chayka"Over the past decade, we’ve been conditioned to think of life on social media as a relentless pursuit of attention from as many people as possible. The goal is to yell into the void, loud enough to perhaps reach a crowd of strangers. Fenwick, of Zirkus, described Mastodon as “designed to be against virality,” which for many users is exactly its appeal. Rochko told me, “I think we’re entering a different paradigm of social media.” Part of what makes Twitter fascinating is the frenetic pace, the crosstalk, the unpredictability. We don’t yet know what an Internet with less virality would look like, or whether it would be as compelling as what came before. But it is heartening, after watching Musk’s erratic Twitter despotism, to imagine community-driven spaces that are only as good as the hosts who moderate them and the people they attract. Perhaps we are undergoing a collective period of relearning what we need and want from our digital lives. Rochko told me, “Some tolerance for slowness is advised.” "
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/what-fleeing-twitter-users-will-and-wont-find-on-mastodon
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