Rimu

In your original post you demonstrated an ability to collect a nice pile of links to support your argument. Use that skill to build the opposite argument and see what happens. If your original argument was a good one it should stand up. I’ve given you a starting point but I’m not going to try to change the mind of an angry person, that’s just stupid.

I could have linked to the studies individually but I am not your research assistant and owe you nothing.

The claim was that there is no evidence. To disprove that all I had to do was find one piece of evidence. I found several with 5 seconds of work. Why are you not putting in that amount of effort? Is it because you are too angry to consider alternative points of view?

This article is better than most like this in that it at least acknowledges the existence of the threadiverse and even explores some of it’s community-related features. Hurrah! But really it equates ActivityPub with just Mastodon, which leads to the conclusion it does. I believe that if they compared Lemmy/PF’s ActivtyPub with ATProto the conclusion might have been quite different.

(Community lives in the heads of the people involved and their feelings of connection to and support for one another. But ok, let’s run with the assumption it’s a technology / protocol thing…)

I was not prepared, however, to find absolutely no evidence.

Hold up, hold up.

Here are plenty of studies - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=attention+span+social+media

No, it’s legit. Elena has been tooting and peertubing about the fedi and her self hosting journey for over a year.

That is not the only sign in that blog post, just the most obvious one.

Notice the heavy use of the em-dash throughout that post?