@catonano @codeawayhaley (which is why more people should use http://raddle.me/ which is a leftist anti-hate-speech version of reddit)

@codeawayhaley great, where on github? me and @annkitty might be interested if spoons

@codeawayhaley you mean commenting the mastodon code? sounds entirely doable especially

@codeawayhaley (also sorry for the necroreply)

@codeawayhaley thank you!

@catonano of course in general, we're all worse off for the way discussion has been gamified; this was the greatest possible gift to the trolls. and it doesn't matter how this is carried out, whether you allow disapproval or not; the problem is that numbers have replaced nuanced discussion.

@kittybecca @catonano the gamfication of communication is perhaps the worst thing the modern internet has plagued us with.

@0x3F @catonano @kittybecca The worst, yes, but it's so simple and the antidote is so elusive. My blog gathers dust because I know that, in writing to it, I will get no response. If I put tracking on it, I will likely get zero views, even. Why voidscream? Why would anyone, if you can go someplace and shitpost for karma? There is clearly at least some feedback signal there, someone, some other person saying "i see you" is half of what we are, deep down, trying to accomplish here.

@c25l @kittybecca @catonano yeah, it's unquestionable that being heard is an inherent part of communication. if nobody interacts with your post were you really heard? even though i disabled notifications for favourites and boosts here, i cant help but peak at the numbers and see how "well" my posts are doing. we all wish to be heard and understood m

@0x3F @kittybecca @c25l

I do get some reactions, though

yesterday I got a pretty strong one, on a irc channel