#contextcollapse — Public Fediverse posts

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

I totally support the founding principle of Me Too; exposing men who use political or economic power to avoid normal consequences for the way they treat others with less power. But Me Too pretty quickly starting being used as an excuse for people dunking on their peers, and then morphed into something much darker. A topic Sarah Z explores in this video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCi4CSqtzw

#PublicShaming #CancelCulture #ContextCollapse

"Whenever someone is making accusations towards the beliefs or character of someone else, it’s worth looking into the source to make sure that there isn’t context which mitigates this. No matter how many people you see favoring a particular take on things, it’s possible that there’s a major, unfortunate case of context collapse taking place."

@fluffy, 2022

https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3449-The-Dangers-of-Context-Collapse

It occurs to me that when folks on the left criticise "cancel culture", this is what we mean.

#ContextCollapse

@impactology

The upside is #innovation.

The down-side of this practice is #ContextCollapse.

"A critical thing about #memes: for any #meme to be successful, it needs to be readapted to new contexts. And when it is — literally, that is in the word — the context collpases, right?
But that's how ideas spread. Ideas don't spread if you can't apply them to a new situation. So, in a way, #contextcollapse is inevitable."
@etymology.substack.com talks about the ways #socialmedia #algorithms have accelerated the context collapse that changes the words we use.

https://youtu.be/KpkW8JhqcgY?si=-XLXqTJsWmCHybaY&t=614

@SmudgeTheInsultCat while i roughly agree with the sentiment, for all we know they're both six years old. #ContextCollapse

I found it, it happened at a high school, "The male student was issued a juvenile summons for sexual battery. The female student was issued a juvenile summons for aggravated assault."

📌 https://web.archive.org/web/20241202142656/https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/teen-stabbed-with-scissors-after-pulling-students-dress-up-at-memphis-school-police-say/article_797268a9-3bdc-5f17-9425-52b694456528.html

Algorithms are breaking how we think from @TechConnectify is a wide-ranging video with a lot of important points. I think the central theme is how willing we have become to surrender our critical thinking capacity to automated forces.

Even on Fediverse where we (generally) don't have an algorithmic feed, we still often behave in ways that collapse context.

Original post: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/114048624533251262

#Fediverse #ContextCollapse #TheAlgorithm

Denn der Qualitätscontent könnte zwar "gestohlen" werden, er wäre jedoch jenseits der Verknüpfung innerhalb eines Nachrichtenkontenrahmens wertlos. Diese dann durch Kontextlosigkeit (#ContextCollapse) strukturell bedingte Wertlosigkeit ist ja genau der Grund für die aufmerksamkeitsökonomisch bedingte Fehlentwicklung althergebrachter medienwirtschaftlicher Konzepte, in deren Folge wir keine funktionierende deliberative Öffentlichkeit mehr zustande bringen. 13/13

@cdonat In der Diskussion, der ich den Hashtag entnommen habe, geht es meines Erachtens um eine Kritik der Vorstellung, mit Hilfe des ActivityPub-Protokols nicht nur verschiedene Plattformen zum Fediverse zu verbinden, sondern dabei über das Ziel hinaus zu schießen und sinnvolle Unterschiede der Plattformen einzuebnen und das Problem des #ContextCollapse noch zu forcieren. 1/x

@cdonat Danke für den Hinweis. Longreads packe ich tatsächlich auf plinubius.de und dort also in ein Wordpress-Blog mit ActivityPub-Plugin. Was ich am Thema #ContextCollapse interessant finde ist, dass das Konzept der "Timelines" in der vorherrschenden Form ungenügend ist

@plinubius

#ContextCollapse

Ich denke, Mastodon ist für das Schreiben längerer Texte suboptimal. Da würde ich mit Fediverse-Anbindung eher z.B. Friendica, oder das WordPress Plugin empfehlen. Das letzte reduziert auch die Ablenkung durch andere Posts, weil es eben mehr als unidirektionales Publikationswerkzeug gedacht ist, denn als bidirektionales Kommunikationssystem. Nicht dass man damit nicht auch bidirektional kommunizieren könnte, aber der Fokus des UI liegt auf dem Publizieren.

#ContextCollapse macht verständlich, warum die Struktur von #Mastodon oder auch anderer Plattformen ohne die Ergänzung weiterer kontextualisierender Strukturelemente (in Anlehnung z.B. Elemente von Policy Analysis und Public Affairs Methoden in ihrer Rohform als Infrastruktur eines kollaborativen Wertschöpfungsprozesses im Sinne des #iwp-Wertkettenmodells) nur bedingt funktionieren kann 6/x

Ich denke, das #ContextCollapse insbesondere am Beispiel des Retweetens bei Twitter/X (oder auch das Boosten bei Mastodon) das in sozialen Medien virulente Phänomen des "feindseligen Dualismus" verstärkt, statt dass das soziale Medium einen dialogischen Monismus fördert, wie @BlumeEvolution es beschreibt und den ich mir in der Praxis als so etwas wie #ushahidi vorstelle oder die Umsetzung der #iwp-Wertkette innerhalb eines politischen Vereins 3/x

Ich habe mit Mastodon als Microbloggingdienst begonnen, um zu schreiben, und werde nun vermehrt von Material abegelenkt und verstört, das mir diejenigen vor allem durch boosten zuspielen, denen ich folge. Ich habe in diesem Zusammenhang, der mich im übrigen nicht zufrieden stellt, einen interessanten Begriff gelernt: #ContextCollapse, siehe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse 1/x

@tlockney @RuthMalan

“Caufield's main argument was that we have become swept away by streams – the collapse of information into single-track timelines of events.”

Caulfield’s “streams” and #ContextCollapse echos “allatonceness” of #MarshallMcLuhan from 1967

Episode 13 addresses the #contextcollapse engulfing #socialmedia generally, and the noise in the signal seen on #tiktok more specifically, and how some of the walled gardens online are developing their enclosures as a means of combating the flood of information.

#implausipod #podcast

https://www.implausipod.com/1935232/13516713-implausipod-e0013-context-collapse

@logoninternet As much as I am rooting for ActivityPub to become a true standard for social media, I am not looking forward to LinkedIn adopting it 😬

#ContextCollapse

@CultureDesk
It's very context specific.

"Colleagues" in a work or semi-formal setting.

"Friends" where I know the bulk of people there.

"Folks" where there are strangers.

"Gentlefolk" where there are people I'd like to show a little formality to.

"Citizens" when I'm mildly irked.
#language #linguistics #culture #context #ContextCollapse

@jake4480 @radiophobicsherkpop What are we all going to do once LinkedIn adopts #ActivityPub? 😱

#ContextCollapse #SocialMedia

On that note, I do wonder about the impact of (eventually?) all social media sites operating on the same network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse

#fediverse #SocialMedia #ContextCollapse #sociology #psychology

@cwebber I follow in order to confirm my bias that #contextcollapse is not a major problem⸮

@oeglobal @weareopencoop @epilepticrabbit @dajb @cogdog Can't wait! Love it when this type of #ContextCollapse happens.
(As for editing, Alan's comment about Bonni's skills made me smile. I may be an audio-oriented person and I do own several iZotope tools, my editing chops aren't what they should be.)

fluffy rambles: The irony of "context collapse" https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/8334-The-irony-of-context-collapse #ContextCollapse #FluffyRambles #Language #Meanings

fluffy rambles: The Dangers of Context Collapse https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3449-The-Dangers-of-Context-Collapse #ContextCollapse #FluffyRambles #Moderation #Algorithms #Discourse #AltRight #Bandcamp

@harriorrihar @erosdiscordia @Holdout @mrencyclopedia on the other hand, #ContextCollapse is a thing, and having separate accounts (or "alts" in fedi parlance) is a way to avoid that.

I kind of like the idea of separate profiles on different instances. It allows me to have different personas, so to speak. And that matches more closely how we interact with people in the physical world: there are things we don't tell our cow-orkers, there are work topics we don't discuss with our family.

@bkeegan @ourhcicommunity

Me: Wow this instance would be a great way to deal with the #contextcollapse on my Twitter TL

Also me: *votes for the server to have pop culture and personal stuff*