TikTok had one advantage that no other platform had. If you made a TikTok that was "controversial" (say, something that was extremely weird or railed into fascism), you'd usually gain enough followers to offset the loss of snowflakes. That is NOT the case with other social media. I worry that people will be deterred from speaking out because of their follower count. Even I am going to have to remind myself in a small way that follower count DOES NOT MATTER.
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I signed up for Bluesky a month ago and deleted that account last week because of the pathological fixation on attaining followers (as well as the preponderance of porn accounts following me). One of the best aspects of Mastodon, IMO, is the genuine engagement one can achieve with like-minded people in small groups, not vast hordes of illiterate strangers.
(I haven’t been on TikTok because I HATE the vertical video format and I’m at least 70 years older than the largest demographic.)
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@cynblogger A friend of mine recently made the cogent observation that BlueSky was where Gen X and millennials are practicing how to become boomers. And I think that pretty much sums it up. I'm with you. I'm more interested in finding my fellow weirdos and couldn't give a toss about likes and followers. And no worries on TikTok. It's not for everyone. On the other hand, a 100-year-old WW2 vet left an extremely moving message when TikTok was going to go bye-bye yesterday.
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