@stevenaleach@jon Definitely. The smartphone decreased the attention span, if only because of the “social media”.
We went from books to newspaper, to mainly online posts and blogs or articles. And now you see most people consume their news from small headlines alone, like on X.
And like you said, reading long in depth stories. Or news. Or other kind of material, only using a small screen on the phone isn’t the same. It’s so small, you get eye strain. Most people didn’t read this last line…
@stevenaleach@sigmoid.social @jon@vivaldi.net I also dislike the default mastodon character limit! Why? Because we are afraid of any arbitrary lengthy text? It’s the fediverse, not X or Facebook!
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org @jon@vivaldi.net Yea, it’s funny - Twitter started out with the tiny character limit because of SMS. But then “micro” became a thing and we mistook a limitation for a feature… now we’re inflicting it on ourselves for no reason.
@stevenaleach @jon Definitely. The smartphone decreased the attention span, if only because of the “social media”.
We went from books to newspaper, to mainly online posts and blogs or articles. And now you see most people consume their news from small headlines alone, like on X.
And like you said, reading long in depth stories. Or news. Or other kind of material, only using a small screen on the phone isn’t the same. It’s so small, you get eye strain. Most people didn’t read this last line…
@stevenaleach@sigmoid.social @jon@vivaldi.net I also dislike the default mastodon character limit! Why? Because we are afraid of any arbitrary lengthy text? It’s the fediverse, not X or Facebook!
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org @jon@vivaldi.net Yea, it’s funny - Twitter started out with the tiny character limit because of SMS. But then “micro” became a thing and we mistook a limitation for a feature… now we’re inflicting it on ourselves for no reason.