Fediverse and parasocial relationships
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Shouldn’t the fediverse discourage patterns that create parasocial relationships?
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Wouldn’t it be better if the standard was a symmetrical relationship between users instead of the asymmetrical follow model?
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Most big social medias thrive on parasocial-relations, is it necessary to emulate that model for success?
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Shouldn’t we focus on community building and mutual friendship instead of forcing everyone to be a mini-celebrity?
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Aren’t communities/groups better for discoverability than the public feeds of mastodon, pleroma,etc
The fediverse is supports varied social media paradigms.
It’s not because one platform such as mastodon is centered around parasocial relationships that the entire fediverse will be. If you don’t like parasocial media, stick to lemmy and don’t go on mastodon. That’s the stength of the fediverse.