Various media favor types of communication. I have a face made for blogging. Substack favors long form, but its chat feature is similar to X. YouTube favors longer videos, even hours long, but reels are becoming a heavier portion. TikTok and Instagram have different audiences, though they overlap. Facebook favors memes, reels, and personal photos. Podcasts are definitely long form, but being audible, they attract a crowd on the road, more like talk radio. Or like talk radio used to be. I don't even know who is on anymore. Of all of these I disapprove of reels the most, because they seem to be more prone to faked scenes, and can vouch for their addictiveness by the number of them I click. I don't know what's up with cable or network TV these days, nor movies. I don't go to news sites anymore, though many of my blog sites are link and news heavy.
We talk about silos in our receiving news, but we usually mean political silos, echo chambers. We are becoming double-siloed now. Instagram stars can be completely unknown on Tiktok or YouTube. Bloggers and substackers are pretty much known only to themselves and each other. Podcasters seem to cross a lot of boundaries, but are more likely to avoid political or cultural commentary altogether. Thus when I hear about young conservatives, I realise I know almost nothing about them. The worst of young leftists get highlighted by conservatives exposing them, but I at least see them, even if a biased sample.
If siloing is bad, double-siloing has got to be worse, doesn't it?
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