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A different way to think about social media:

Since the arrival of some very large accounts on the fediverse, I noticed the familiar feeling of being a small fish in a big pond.

There's an idea popularized by Malcom Gladwell in the book _David and Goliath_ that "The Big Pond takes really bright students and demoralizes them." My nerdier way to say it is, we're more productive when we feel our effort is valuable in comparison to our social context.

To counter the small fish feeling, I created several lists that would be the right-sized "ponds" for me separated into distinct interest areas like software development, protocol development, project members, or just cool people.

Each list has a couple of big accounts and many smaller ones as measured by monthly reach. The metric could be anything, like basic follower count or how active they are in replies but I made a spreadsheet to calculate reach so went with that.

Anecdotally after a week I can say the results are positive. I spend less time lost in the Home timeline and more in these "ponds." The volume is lower so I can keep up with the toots but the biggest thing is I'm more energized to visit, reply and post.

What do you think? Have you tried anything like this here or on other social networks? How do YOU curate this thing?

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Creating magic through evolution of the Fediverse. Running Ecko, a community-driven fork of Mastodon managed using the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) by the Magic Stone Community. C4 is a protocol for asynchronous, non-blocking, distributed, problem-focused software development.