First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

  • nackmack@plesiosaur.net
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    2 years ago

    @jmp242 @Morgueanna People these days aren’t getting the practice they need to search and curate their online activities because the main platforms they grew up interacting on - twitter, insta, and tiktok, suggest communities and other users to you. They get intimidated without the assist they get from these suggestions because the breadth of options is overwhelming if you don’t know how to navigate, and without very clear intervention and ramps for low-skill users it’s hard to retain anyone who doesn’t have the time and inclination to learn. Took me a while to figure that out, eventually learned it from a research librarian that she’s actually got to work harder to teach people how to search these days.

    • jmp242
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      2 years ago

      I guess I can blame education, but heck I may have just grown up at the right time.

      • nackmack@plesiosaur.net
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        2 years ago

        @jmp242 It really is that. Before searching was superceded by suggested items searching was a skill that people had to build and maintain to have a good experience online. Without pressure to learn and pathways to learn, people don’t always figure it out without help.