Explaining niche topics like you're five would lead to absolutely humongous posts; CW: long (over 2,150 characters), included "quote-post"
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He may have a point, yes. There may be more people in the Fediverse who think like him, yes. He even sounds like he has come across one of my posts.
But if I did what he asked for, all my regular posts would grow to thousands upon thousands of characters and take hours to write because I'd have to break everything down to the very basics. Both the primary and the secondary topic of this channel are niche within a niche, maybe within yet another niche for a non-technical audience.
Essentially, I couldn't post anything anymore without long-post content warnings for Mastodon users who are disturbed by everything longer than 500 characters.
And my image descriptions for moderately complex in-world images, now sitting at 35,000 to 40,000 characters for the first image in a post and not counting the preamble, might easily grow beyond 50,000 or 60,000 characters. The preamble would grow well over 5,000 characters. Even longer if I took people's attention spans into consideration and explained certain things again and again.
This wouldn't even really help people outside my niche with understanding my posts. Even fewer of them would read them in the first place, and even more of them would mute or block me to get rid of those monstrous posts in their timelines.
And no, I can't explain the implications of the current scheduled OSgrid downtime in one simple sentence and in plain, everyday language to someone who doesn't even understand what a server is and knows exactly nothing about 3-D virtual worlds. Not in a way they'd fully understand.
Some of ya'll need to step back from the hyper-specific niche topics you post about and take a second to think about explaining your topics to normies, like ELI5 once in a while. Sometimes I'm scrolling my feed and I'm like 😵💫 wtf is all this this about.
Maybe I just curated a bunch of people with hard to follow niche interests.
Am I the only one?
It seems like people aren't posting to have a conversation, It's just monologuing. I prolly fall into this once in a while as well.
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