You know what else I like about masto, how thumbnails are v small and deemphasized. Looking at birbsite, I'm realizing now how much graphics have taken it over.
@chris_martin yes there's so much noise with what I recently described as giant lollipop hero images everywhere designed to zap straight into our lizard brains.
Here on Mastodon the post length and text emphasis gives me room to breathe and incentivizes more discussion and interaction. Not just snarky one liners with quotes tweets or carefully crafted viral headlines with an army of hashtags.
@pseudomichael @chris_martin i had the weirdest realization yesterday when i was typing something to someone about a relatively technical thing that took all 500 characters twice and that it would have taken literally five twotes to express it on the birdsite
"i have room to actually communicate whole ideas and context instead of shouting fragments of thoughts into the void"
@r4v5 @chris_martin it's like having a whole note card for passing messages around instead of just tiny strips of paper.