While I think you are right and there are surely factors worth investigating, I cannot shake the feeling that ‘money for ads’ is a really big one.
To the point: I cannot htelp but notice that the bigger services place emphasis on you presenting, ourself, while small decentralized ones place more import on anonimity. I think there’s a part in all or most people that wants to present themselves and be lauded among peers. This is to me why platforms with photo capability like fb and insta took off. Also reddit was trying to gravitate more and more towards this with following profiles and bla
That’s definitely a pretty important distinction, and I’m definitely interested to see if there’ll ever be a federate platform that does emphasize real identities. Growing that would be very hard given the network effects, but TikTok etc show that it is possible, at least.
I think PixelFed is going in this direction if I’m not mistaken. Also to your points and which I keep bringing up… you can have both anonymous and Real identities interacting directly with each other here. Of course other social media sites can do this somewhat but they all encourage you to give them as much info as possible.
Doesn’t Mastodon do identities? I feel like I’ve seen a lot of people on there doing names and photos. Those may be professional names (pen names, screen names, etc) rather than what’s on their driver’s license, but it still allows them to get direct, personal attention rather than anonymous interaction.
While I think you are right and there are surely factors worth investigating, I cannot shake the feeling that ‘money for ads’ is a really big one.
To the point: I cannot htelp but notice that the bigger services place emphasis on you presenting, ourself, while small decentralized ones place more import on anonimity. I think there’s a part in all or most people that wants to present themselves and be lauded among peers. This is to me why platforms with photo capability like fb and insta took off. Also reddit was trying to gravitate more and more towards this with following profiles and bla
That’s definitely a pretty important distinction, and I’m definitely interested to see if there’ll ever be a federate platform that does emphasize real identities. Growing that would be very hard given the network effects, but TikTok etc show that it is possible, at least.
I think PixelFed is going in this direction if I’m not mistaken. Also to your points and which I keep bringing up… you can have both anonymous and Real identities interacting directly with each other here. Of course other social media sites can do this somewhat but they all encourage you to give them as much info as possible.
Doesn’t Mastodon do identities? I feel like I’ve seen a lot of people on there doing names and photos. Those may be professional names (pen names, screen names, etc) rather than what’s on their driver’s license, but it still allows them to get direct, personal attention rather than anonymous interaction.