@jamesvasile @emacsen @rhiaro A more web of trust'y fediverse might actually be more intimate in that way: less of an aim for "global" popularity; the only faves/shares you can see are the ones from the people you actually know

@emacsen @cwebber @rhiaro That does apply on Twitter, where it can be difficult to keep the antisocial stuff out, but here in the fediverse if I see toxic stuff I just block it and then they can go argue between themselves outside of my timeline.

The dopamine hits stuff is only partly true. It's also that there are genuine disagreements and irreconcilable differences, and if you jam a lot of people into one space where they can't avoid each other then fights are bound to break out.

@bob @cwebber @rhiaro @emacsen

"Genuine disagreements" should not imply "fights" but long civil dialogues trying to understand each other perspectives.

@emacsen
I wonder if this is why "algorithm" driven timeline orders ruin things. Rather than allowing a social culture to decide when too much "viral" activity is past a cultural threshold (ie, discounting people with "too many" followers or reposts, or activity that suggests they're only in it for the numbers), it mixes the numbers in a black box and promotes those it thinks are important. Which means the struggle to be heard becomes a resentment that can't be resolved, and poisons the community.

@cwebber @rhiaro

@emacsen @cwebber @rhiaro

I have also noticed that when communities shift from cooperative scorekeeping (here's how you're doing among your friends and people like you in a score that means nothing outside of your context) to competitive scorekeeping (here's your WORLD RANKING), things fall apart and turn nasty. Possibly because of the same sense of lack of control. See also, Overwatch year 1 vs esports Overwatch, and many of Alfie Kohn's speeches about competition.

@jaywink @cwebber @rhiaro Well the whole Spritely thing is sort-of-kind-of a place where bots and people can interact.

And TBH these bots might be less toxic than the people we interact with. :)

@jaywink But whom does it represent more? Who is writing the algorithms, the protocols, the user experience?

@clacke I really hate microblogging grr. Anyway, here: https://diaspodon.fr/@jaywink/101584768159745157 :)

@jaywink @rhiaro We're talking more about the people who build the social web than the people who use it :)

@cwebber @rhiaro Ah well, in that case. My experience is that the people who build the social web are as hostile as other project maintainers - which is to say more hostile than average in normal population. There is something about being an excellent productive developer and being arrogant that seems to correlate :(

Not sure it's related to the social web though. One can be social and still be hostile or arrogant. Just bad kind of social :)