wow jesus I'm sorry that's not worded better, but you get the gist - I can't use this platform because it just feels so individual and alienating from other humans; the only content I really like are the cushvlogs and that's about it. At least with Twitter, it's more of a messageboard split oddly and it's normal to just have commentary from randos (and often it's pretty funny if the person has a good sense of humor)

it just feels like shouting into a void and so is everyone else

  • Shmyt [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    Some places are cool to chat in, I'm in some webcam mtg discords and lots of the streams I watch are just folks from there who stream what they do anyways but just with the ability to do fundraisers or community events. It's not really weird and parasocial being connected to someone you literally play and talk with when they aren't getting paid. Twitch is also pretty decent for just closing the chat bar and watching larger events like esports where the broadcast is big enough that they don't pretend to be pandering to every viewer. Granted thats also because at that size chats are just copypastas and racism so minimizing it is incentivised. The middle of those extremes though are absurdly weird and i agree completely that they can get super creepy or just lost to the void.