Fediverse and parasocial relationships

  • Shouldn’t the fediverse discourage patterns that create parasocial relationships?

  • Wouldn’t it be better if the standard was a symmetrical relationship between users instead of the asymmetrical follow model?

  • Most big social medias thrive on parasocial-relations, is it necessary to emulate that model for success?

  • Shouldn’t we focus on community building and mutual friendship instead of forcing everyone to be a mini-celebrity?

  • Aren’t communities/groups better for discoverability than the public feeds of mastodon, pleroma,etc

  • Liwott@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Sure, but I don’t understand how enforcing two-way connection would encourage people to become creators.

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      3 years ago

      Quite the contrary. My understanding is that this is about removing dark-patterns found in commercial social-media that foster consumerist behavior as that is more conducive to selling advertisements and product placements.

      • Liwott@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        Sorry, I don’t get the relation with your previous comment and my reply to it.

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          3 years ago

          AFAIK the idea about reducing parasocial relationships on the fediverse is not solely about enforcing two way connections. It is one of many ideas, but as you point out it probably isn’t a very good one.