Everyone complains about shorts or reels format. But reading comments is the short format of reading.
And I can attest the the feeling is the same, quick dopamine release and after a session we can’t barely remember most of what was read, just like short video format.
Oh the threaded comment system changes everything. Since all of this is on activity pub, you can also read Lemmy comments from Mastodon. Ever seen people put hashtags into Lemmy comments? Yeah, those people are interacting with Lemmy without actually being on Lemmy.
The random mess of a Mastodon feed never felt right for me because there wasn’t anything connecting the messages with one another. In that sense, you could say that Mastodon gives you the kind of unstructured experience short form videos have.
Yep, I have encountered mastodon and the like posts here on Lemmy etc. Somehow a lot of them show up in !firefox@fedia.io
Well actually being in fedia.io it would makes sense, since fedia being mbin supports threaded posts and microblog posts.