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 On Reddit, you talk about ideas to faceless users whose names are almost
 entirely irrelevant.
 
 on Twitter and Mastodon, you speak to people and "sound your barbaric yawp"
 into the void.
 
 on forums, you have a continual conversation that ebbs and flows and
 occasionally returns to the main point, but often will spiral out to random
 places that the responders decided were worth exploring.
 
 instagram and facebook and the like are designed to share your real life - your
 experiences and your masks.
 
 tumblr and cohost are designed to blog about topics and interests, abstracting
 the "communal" aspect away and essentializing connections to the tenuous ties
 between people who enjoy similar pieces of pop media.
 
 reddit's style encourages discussion. 
 twitter's style encourages expression. 
 forums encourage conversation. 
 instagram encourages perfection.
 tumblr encourages culture.
 
 I'm from Reddit, so please feel free to tell me how and why I'm wrong.
 
 Here on Mastodon if more than 10 people reply, it'll be impossible.
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 my two favorite foods are amino acids and proteins!!
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 @user-1218 
 
 🥰
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 @user-206 
 
 I think forums would be great if you could collapse replies to particular
 comments, sorta like how you can on Reddit.
 
 I think this would encourage discussion and conversation the same way that
 forums do, while making it easier to get up to speed on topics.
 
 Far too often I've looked at a forum and thought "oh hey I'd love to reply to
 this 40 page long thread, but I don't want to read 40 pages because I want to
 speak rather than read"
 
 ... I don't think that's unreasonable, which I guess is why I gravitated toward
 Reddit where people are encouraged to speak... downside is, repeated
 conversations, like you said. There's no perfect solution for everyone =P
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 "why didn't you say anything? why didn't you ask for help?"
 
 because then you might have done something about it, and don't you know I
 deserve to decay?
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 @user-192 
 
 I can relate to that impulse, which is why I'm liking this reply
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 why do video games feel like harm reduction?? -.-
 
 let your new meds take hold. you never know, you might feel fine in a week or
 three.
 
 ... also, followers only please, there's no reason your mental health posts
 need to bother the whole server
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