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People are running role-playing games on the tumblr communities and somehow it works really well. Communities are popping off.
I'm fascinated by the ways that social media "features" almost never get used as intended. Tumblr tried to have this thing called "tumblr live" a few years back and everyone hated it. Communities have been better received.
I wish we had something like "communities" here on mastodon. Imagine if monsterdon could be a little more ... contained.
Yes it's charming to have warning posts about the incoming onslaught of #monsterdon posts each Sunday. The monsterdon people are very considerate all things considered. But, it feels like swimming upstream. We need a groups feature.
I have thought about doing many fun things here, but rejected it because I don't want to spam people more than I already do. Groups ideally would have a customizable landing page, members list, the ability to view only posts from the group. Nothing huge.
@futurebird Maybe there's an idea that Mastodon is Twitter-style microblogging, so it shouldn't have groups, you need to go to some other fediverse platform that has groups (Friendica? Lemmy?)
But, of course, we hang around these places more for the people who are there as for the feature list (at least I do).
@mattmcirvin
Mostly true. Though there's a whole bunch of people not here who it's tempting to go look for elsewhere.
I wish I could have the people and the features and decentralisation
@futurebird
@RedRobyn @futurebird There's something weird about how different fediverse services can interoperate with each other, but the different feature sets necessarily mean they're seen as through a glass, darkly. I keep getting tempted to get a Pixelfed account but then I've got another damn account to keep straight.
@mattmcirvin
Yes,
NZ Twitter was something special and measurably different (one of the tweeps did some cool r-stats analysis about it just for fun) I miss it and they are apparently mostly all on bluesky. Sadly this place wasn't safe for indigenous people. Probably should have changed instances about that sooner. Do wonder about how that will change which posts I can see from other instances.
@futurebird
@RedRobyn @futurebird My old Facebook/Twitter friends and blog comment people are much more likely to be on bsky than here.
@RedRobyn @futurebird On the other hand, a lot of the best math/science nerds I knew from Google+ ARE here and that's actually what pulled me in.
I use the Bridgy Fed thing to interact with Bluesky, but since it's entirely opt-in it only gives me a very limited connection.