Post #2778083
2024-02-14 12:45 UTC
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk this reminds me of danah boyd's thesis on teen publics ~15 years ago “their idea of public is not about all people across all space and all time. They want publics of peers, not publics where creeps and parents lurk.”
This is part of the original twitter illusion - that you were talking to the people who you follow, not those who follow you, and not the firehose feed. That created a good normative sense for the most part, but the illusion broke with search and reply notifications
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@bmp@mastodon.sdf.org 2024-02-14 13:36
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone This quote from Danah Boyd's thesis reminds me about the discussion around how online social networks have changed from "replicated real world networks" whether they were on BBSes, listservs, forums or other modes which were topical or demographical in some sense to "public personas" maintained and monetized by third-party services. If only I can go find the source for that study now. @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk