Jatan Mehta blogs about the noisiness of most social networks, and how Micro.blog takes a different approach:

Micro.blog is the only Fediverse-compatible platform I know of which truly does away with likes, boosts, follower counts, and hashtags. I wish all social networks removed these pointless stats by default.

Some people like the extra activity of boosts and notifications, and that’s fine too. I do think it can help with discoverability. But not every network needs to work the same way. If every network was a clone of Twitter, the social web would be much less interesting.

Rene van Belzen

Right on! People should be able to pick their preferred flavor and ambiance.

Jarrod Blundy

But not every network needs to work the same way. If every network was a clone of Twitter, the social web would be much less interesting.

Agreed! I like that Micro.blog is different. I see a lot of requests that would pull it back in the direction of a more traditional social network...but there are already plenty of those to choose from.

Rasmus Sten

personally, I would like to see a fav/like count from Mastodon readers, but only visible to me the author. Mastodon users are used to show their appreciation that way, rather then reply to the post.

Bob Loftin

@manton if someone wants to comment on my micro blog, they are welcome to do it on Mastodon, blue sky, or wherever else I choose to syndicate.

Pratik

But not every network needs to work the same way. If every network was a clone of Twitter, the social web would be much less interesting.

Amen. That's why I still hang out here the most.

Manton Reece @manton
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