cleverdevil
cleverdevil

Tina Turner passed away today, which is sad.

A bit of social media platform data - I saw a single post about it on Mastodon, and many posts about it on BlueSky. This continues to reinforce how I think of these platforms.

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pratik
pratik

@cleverdevil 6 mentions on my Mastodon and 3 on Bluesky for me. So maybe it’s just who you follow?

And yours was the first on Micro.blog about it so 🤷🏽‍♂️ I would argue that it doesn’t matter when or how much I hear about certain news because that depends on each platform is designed to elicit the type of behavior we see on those apps.

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@pratik it’s definitely a lot about who I choose to follow, but I do also think it reflects on the networks themselves.

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pratik
pratik

@cleverdevil Agree but I like to reflect on our expectations (I was guilty of this as well). Why do we expect instant news or reactions from everyone on our follow list about the said instant news? Isn’t that just leading to performative posting? E.g., if I don’t post about Tina Turner’s death, my followers will think I don’t care about her. This thought follows after the race to post the news first ends.

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@pratik yeah totally fair. For what it’s worth, I don’t actually have any expectations, I just am commenting on what I am seeing :)

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pratik
pratik

@cleverdevil Yup I know. I hope you didn’t feel like I am calling you out on anything but wanted to put my thoughts out there in case people inferred from your observations 😀

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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@pratik hah, no worries at all, and I definitely took your responses the way you intended. 😇

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