Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:58
The Art Of Conversation.
So I don't know if exactly that was the point in which they were trying to design for that particular swell or not, but, yeah, I don't know. It's interesting to me. Even in the amount of swells you make per day can alienate conversation. It's just very depleting to respond to somebody. Then you see they make a new post in another post, and then they go back to like your post, as if they're trying to say they don't like your conversation
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:49
I love the idea of being in conversation with people from all over the world who really their voice is joined in this chorus of this collaborative iterative experience where you don't know what's going to come next, but you feel that your time is being spent well, because more often than not for me, I learned something or I'm delighted or I'm entertained or I'm just invigorated by a conversation
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 3:54
I absolutely see people coming in here wanting to be heard, not to engage in conversation. And I think that's because the square ethos of let's have a conversation hasn't caught on yet. People don't know what to do with that, because that's a real life thing. It's not a digital thing. Digital. You post pictures, you make a podcast like this is another platform to be heard. I just think asynchronous conversation takes some getting used to
I think this is an important question, Dewuan, particularly when we're looking at what we witness here and what we hope for this platform, its survival, its ability to thrive, you know, a little over a month ago, not quite sure. When it was maybe early January, end of December, I had a swell where I talked about there was a shifting in the culture here, and I think what we're witnessing now is a continuation of that
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:32
It's almost like a surprise to them that they got a response. But in any event, I obviously appreciate being here on Swell. And I guess what spurred this idea. I remember I was talking with Shannon and she said something about how swell is, like 2 miles an hour, whereas clubhouse was 200 miles an hour. And I thought that was fascinating to me because that's not how it is. It feels like swell is 200 miles an hour, and clubhouse is 2 miles an hour
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:45
Type of stuff that used to be on anchor that used to get on my f****** nerves when I would make a topic about some deep, profound thing and someone's like, hey Dewuan, How's the weather in Minnesota, man, I just seen it. So now that that's kind of gone in favor of private messages. Maybe that answers the question to what I'm speaking about anyway
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:57
I guess it's just a matter of for one, I think it's the culture of the platform itself. I think Tim pointed this out where I noticed that there is a lot of people posting stuff sometimes the same four or five people who have, like, 20 accounts divided amongst each other
But the culture has changed as well as there were a core group of people who were the art of conversation. Of course, there were other people who participated, but not on a regular basis like that core. And those core people are not here anymore. So between a shifting culture and some of those voices leaving, it's definitely created a different environment. And pompous or not, Dewuan, I'm right there with you
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:43
These are things I just didn't consider until now where just seeing a bunch of replies could alienate you in a way where people are like, I don't know if I want to respond. I don't want all the notifications. Who knows? Maybe that could be a factor, but yeah, Christina, I'm fully aware that in a way too, I have a privileged experience here because, again, it's not that I'm having a lack of conversation
Oh, my goodness. That's something else. I have wondered a lot. Has my response shut this conversation down. But you make a good point that if if people who do like the deeper types of conversation are not not present, that also means there are fewer deep conversation topics to dive into
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:36
I've heard that mention on here a few times, and yeah, it does seem like if you say key words or phrases, certain people will kind of crop up to where they want to speak more because I'm going to mention something here that like an independent study I was doing. I was noticing, like, the categories I was even choosing to make. My stuff about majority is like psychology. It's psychology, philosophy, culture, community. Almost always
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:57
I think it's the individual and what their tastes are, but also I think it's the app and what its nature is as a platform where I stated this a couple of swells earlier in this thread, where I think at times the app can cater more towards the idea of starting conversations rather than having them. Sometimes you can have staff members of Swell
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 1:56
Hey, what's up? Wonderful. And yeah, as usual. Interesting topic from you. Again, I can only speak for myself, and I'm on here just to generate conversation. That's what I like. I mean, I do enjoy feedback, and I know you're not always going to get it, and you just got to have faith in your content and be patient. And there's people out there that just like to listen. And I completely understand