People often talk about the barriers to entry of the fediverse and IRC
and uh - what if we called those barriers to entry "culture"
and uh - what if we called those barriers to entry "culture"
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The barriers are all the choices people have made to make the community work
Those aren't arcane technical rules, those are *customs*, old internet communities have *customs and knowledge*, and if you move to another country, there's always culture shock
We have whole papers about how people start disliking them, then start to love them, then start to have them feel natural
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I tend to see it on both spaces. A lot of the time it's people who bounced off, but I see it from all sides. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509 this is the place that sparked the thought, and that was 100% a person who uses both.
Also! Yay! My server's decision to stop posting statuses is over!
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⛅ w chance of bears
•(I still don't understand why people act like gambling on which interoperable fediverse instance to join is worse than gambling on which of several mutually incompatible services to join)
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If I go to Post.News I am done making choices
If I go to the Fediverse, now I need to make a second choice
And I mean - from my end it's a question of wanting to give up on the model (which I've wanted to do for as long as the model has existed)
I also have a weird relationship with the "room full of strangers" question, as I started with "I want a single panel for all my social stuff which can also use the federated stuff" rather than "I want to join this network" (I already had a disused GNUSocial, and a Diaspora account)