I'd like less focus on the network and more on individual servers, with their own names, policies, and reputations. Then users aren't thinking about whether to join one huge network - they're thinking about whether that server is the kind of place they want to be. (https://wandering.shop is a good example of an instance that is explicitly going for certain vibes.)
It would allow individual pre-existing communities to create their own spaces, ones which would prioritize those communities' experiences and needs over their connection to the rest of the fediverse. I'm imagining something like Dreamwidth or Fur Affinity or the many old-fashioned forums out there, just with the ability to follow users or navigate to topics on other instances if you know their names or URLs. I'm really not worried about discoverability outside the instance - to me, the instance is the platform, and anything outside of it is just an additional thing I can get to if I want it.
That being said, I think this approach is probably incompatible with trying to create a general-purpose social media site that also attracts a large number of users, at least not without a hefty marketing budget.
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Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.
I appriciate the reply. It’s kind of frustrating the way the fediverse works right now. I feel like we’re in 1994 era of the internet. Back then AOL was trying to BE the internet. URLs existed, but to give you an idea of how overlooked they were, Yahoo at one time in the mid 90s valued the AOL keyword for Yahoo over the URL. There are ads where they DON’T list the URL, but they do say “Visit us at AOL Keyword: Yahoo”.
Everything feels very day 1. Like I can clearly see a future for the fediverse where the common man can be interconnected. Much like I said in 1994 using my libraries technology center to access the internet for the first time. I can remember watching the news and the one anchor was trying to explain the internet to people. Specifically email. He said “Ok, so I just put my name in first, Tom, and then I put the anarchy symbol, and then after the anarchy symbol I put AOL.com”.
Meanwhile today we have shopping, and news, and social media, and videos, and everything else from one end to the other.
I could see all that back in 1994. It was obvious what needed to happen.
And right now, what needs to happen is for all services to operate with each other as if you’re always a local user. Everything in the fediverse needs to 100% play nice. The example I always see stated is that the fediverse is like email. Your email can interact with other emails services, but must always be done from your own inbox. But that’s kind of misleading to a degree. Because email is JUST email. The fediverse is email, video, photos, article sharing, social media, I assume there’s a music based aspect I haven’t found yet. The point is, right now these services are very VERY fragmented. I understand it’s decentralized, but it shouldn’t be this fragmented. It doesn’t have to be, and to grow we are going to need to get to a point where we can go to our instance of choice, log in, but then use any number of these services with one account. I can’t currently log into lemmy.world, and browse peer-tube, yet if I leave my instance, I’m no longer in my account. So you say to just create a peer-tube account. Ok, but now that’s fragmented. There’s two accounts. And then maybe I want to share pictures. Well now I need a pixelfed account. Ok, now that’s 3 accounts for 1 fediverse. And the list only grows. Mastodon? 4 accounts.
You get the idea. You can’t say it’s just like email, because with email it’s just one service, therefore always just one account.
I see a future where you log into 1 account from your instance. From that home page on your instance, you can interact with any service that hasn’t banned you, or defederated from your instance. ANY fediverse service. With one account. You can write mastodon messages, post a video to peertube, check your email, post some pictures, whatever. And all your notifications will be in one place. Organized. A centralized decentralization if you will.
Because right now, it’s kind of looking like a patch blanket, where everybody makes their own one patch…but then none of it makes sense together.
And here’s the other thing. EVERYBODY needs to be included. YES, EVERYBODY. You can personally block someone if you like, but right now Lemmy is very very left leaning. And that’s fine. BUT, I do see how it will play out once Threads starts fully federating. It is going to be a culture clash. And that actually in the long run is fine too. Lemmy.World can be very left leaning. But there might be another instance. Lemmy.Republican and that leans very right. Which is actually good. You can block that instance if you want. Instances SHOULD start developing their own personalities.
We should have major instances, and minor instances. The major ones should be general purpose. They can still lean left or right. This is where you’ll find all the popular topics. And I don’t mean Lemmy popular. I mean real world popular. If we’re going to get every single human on the fediverse, we need to realize that our opinions on everything are NOT going to mesh. So, you have each instance cator to a different audience.
Then there’s minor instances. These will be smaller, but host the niche topics. Maybe you have a hobby for collecting trains. That’s going to be a less popular topic, so you’d find an entire instance just dedicated to collecting trains. Different communities on that instance for different aspects of collecting trains. Smaller but dedicated.
Sorry for the long reply. I just see a world that doesn’t exist, and I want it to hurry up already…but then I see people on Lemmy who are actively opposed to, or confused by the idea of how big the fediverse CAN get. We just need to iron out the kinks. I’m having a nerdy day, and just imagining living in this world where the fediverse isn’t some linux crowd only niche topic…but instead the dominant everything connected universe it could be. Which will completely disrupt the power of these corporations to rule the internet. If we can achieve my dreams of the fediverse, these corporations will be forced to give up huge chunks of their power, or risk losing it all to irrelevancy. The fediverse can put the power back into the hands of the people. We just have to allow it to grow to become bigger than the culture of being linux’s sidekick.
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DATE: July 23, 2024 at 06:00AM
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TITLE: Sticky attention in autism: Scientists make unexpected discovery when analyzing eye-tracking data
A new study published in the journal Autism Research sheds light on the attentional patterns of young autistic children and their relationship with sensory experiences. The researchers found notable connections between “sticky attention” and certain sensory behaviors, such as heightened sensory responsiveness and intense interests. Additionally, the study uncovered a novel attentional pattern dubbed “springy attention,” where autistic children tended to return their gaze to familiar stimuli rather than focusing on new ones.
Prior research has highlighted various atypical attention forms in autism, such as difficulty disengaging from certain stimuli (known as “sticky attention”). Understanding these patterns is vital as they could influence sensory processing, which in turn affects daily activities, social interactions, and overall quality of life.
“Many autistic people have uncommon sensory experiences, and some of these can be quite overwhelming – it takes a lot of extra coping energy to go through the world if you are frequently having distressing and exhausting episodes of sensory overload,” said study author Patrick Dwyer, a research fellow at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre at Trobe University.
“We also know that many young autistic people show different attention patterns to neurotypical people. Attention differences in autism could also affect learning. If somebody pays attention to different things, they will learn different information from their environment, and this could go on to have cascading effects on ongoing learning and development.”
“According to the monotropism theory, autistic people often experience hyper focus where they intensely focus on some things in their environments, while other things may be relatively ignored,” Dwyer explained. “This atypical focus could affect sensory processing and learning. This has only recently started to be directly investigated in many research studies.”
The study involved a sample of 95 children aged 2 to 4 years, including 65 autistic children and 30 nonautistic children. Participants were recruited through community channels and a participant registry, and their diagnoses were confirmed through clinical assessments. Nonautistic participants were screened using the Social Communication Questionnaire. The researchers used two primary methods to measure attention patterns: the gap-overlap task and the novelty preference task.
The gap-overlap task involved presenting a central stimulus followed by a peripheral target. In the “gap” condition, the central stimulus disappeared before the peripheral target appeared, so the child could shift attention to the new target without any need to disengage first. In the “overlap” condition, the central stimulus remained onscreen alongside the peripheral target, necessitating the child to disengage from the central stimulus before focusing on the peripheral target.
The novelty preference task, as its name implies, assessed the children’s preference for novel stimuli. Initially, two familiar images were displayed side by side. After a period, one of the familiar images was replaced with a novel image, and the researchers tracked how long the children looked at the novel versus the familiar image. This task aimed to measure the children’s tendency to explore new stimuli versus sticking with known ones.
“We used an eye tracker to examine where young autistic and non-autistic children were looking on a computer screen,” Dwyer explained. “With this technology, we measured two attention patterns, each of which seemed – in autistic participants, at least – to be related to other variables.”
The researchers found that autistic children did not exhibit significantly greater “sticky attention” compared to their nonautistic peers. Both groups showed similar times in shifting their focus from a central stimulus to a peripheral target.
However, within the autistic group, those who exhibited slower attention disengagement (more “sticky attention”) were found to have higher levels of sensory hyper-responsiveness, intense sensory interests, and enhanced perception of subtle stimuli. These findings suggest a link between difficulty in shifting attention and heightened sensory experiences in autistic children.
“In autism, this ‘sticky’ pattern was related to sensory hyper-reactivity and sensory seeking, which could mean that being slow to ‘unstick’ focus gives some autistic people a more intense sensory experience,” Dwyer told PsyPost. “If so, this more intense experience could be good or bad depending on whether the stimulus is pleasant or unpleasant.”
An unexpected pattern, termed “springy attention,” emerged during the study. This pattern was characterized by autistic children returning their gaze to previously familiar stimuli after briefly looking at new ones. The first hints of this pattern were seen in the novelty preference task, and the authors later found stronger evidence of it in the gap-overlap task when the central stimulus remained onscreen.
Autistic children were more likely to exhibit this behavior, and it was associated with lower cognitive abilities and greater sensory hypo-responsiveness.
“In autism, this pattern was related to more sensory hypo-responsiveness – being under-responsive to sensations – perhaps meaning that ‘springy attention’ makes one less likely to react to new stimuli,” Dwyer said. “It was also related to lower scores on a measure of cognitive ability, suggesting that autistic participants with ‘springier attention’ might have missed learning opportunities.”
“We actually hadn’t expected to observe the ‘springy attention’ pattern at all. The idea of measuring ‘springy attention’ only occurred to us when we looked at graphs showing changes in how much autistic and non-autistic people looked at one stimulus or another, from one tenth of a second to the next tenth of a second and so on.”
These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of attentional patterns in autistic children and their impact on sensory experiences and cognitive abilities. But the study like all research has some caveats. For instance, the study’s design was not initially designed to measure “springy attention,” and the varying characteristics of stimuli could have influenced the results.
“Any study finding needs replication, so we should still be somewhat cautious about these results until they are replicated,” Dwyer noted. “Furthermore, because we weren’t expecting to observe the ‘springy attention’ pattern, our task wasn’t optimized for measuring it. As a result, we can’t yet rule out the idea that the springy attention pattern was driven by some autistic children being more interested in some kinds of stimuli (like black and white shapes) than others (like colorful toys).”
“We also aren’t suggesting all sensory experiences in autism are driven by attention – indeed, there are some experiences, like higher levels of tinnitus, that seem unlikely to be caused by attention.”
The researchers aim to enhance the understanding of sensory differences and learning in autism. They hope to empower autistic individuals by providing insights into how attention affects sensory experiences and to leverage the strengths of autistic attention profiles to improve learning outcomes.
“In the long run, we hope to use these findings to enhance our understanding of sensory differences and learning in autism,” Dwyer said. “Sensory experiences in autism can be difficult to understand, both for autistic people and others around them, and we hope a better understanding of how some autistic sensory experiences work could give people on the spectrum more of a sense of control over their sensory experiences.”
“Likewise, we hope a better understanding of how attention relates to learning in autism can help us ensure young autistic children don’t miss key learning opportunities and help us take full advantage of strengths – like intense focus – in autistic attention profiles.”
The study, “Hyper-focus, sticky attention, and springy attention in young autistic children: Associations with sensory behaviors and cognitive ability,” was authored by Patrick Dwyer, Andre Sillas, Melanie Prieto, Emily Camp, Christine Wu Nordahl, and Susan M. Rivera.
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How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?
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[Guide] Uptime monitoring in Windows
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Erdogan says Turkey might enter Israel to help Palestinians (www.reuters.com)
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I am try to mod lemmy.world/c/amarequests and i think we could both join forces.
AMA Requests is open for service.
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How did gravity worked on the Death Star?
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Immich relies on a third-party service that seems shady to me
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Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows (www.timesnownews.com)
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