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[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I just hopped on.  I think this will replace twitter in it's entirety.  

[Tryptamine]

On 11/16/2024 at 1:28 AM, PackLandVA said:

Smart phones are mostly awful. Unfortunately, I own one (but only one).

Social media platforms are mostly evil. I belong to this board, a Packers board (both for over 20 years), and I have a mostly dormant/lurking FB account because that seemed like a necessity 15 years ago.

That’s it. I surf random websites for sports, news, history, data, but I don’t do any type of commentary.

I’m just really down on smart phones because of the always accessible social media attached. I’m not down for me, but rather, pretty much everyone else I know and see.  It’s hard to find people doing just nothing. At a restaurant - everyone is on their phones. Stop light - phones. At the beach, in a park, at the movies - phones. Even social gatherings - everyone is constantly checking their phones. And especially younger folks. They have grown to need instant satisfaction/information.  Throw in more advanced bots and the eventual domination of AI into social media and dialogue will be even worse, if that’s possible.

Sad, but I guess I’m old.

That is all. 

This is more or less where I am. I have a cell phone I bought in December of 2018 and a Facebook account I've posted on maybe once in the last 5 years, that's it. I've never had a Twitter account, or Snapchat or Instagram or anything like that. I get enough misery porn every time I turn on TV/Radio I don't need additional sources to add extra anxiety.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

On 11/16/2024 at 8:51 AM, JudasIscariotTheBird said:

I just hopped on.  I think this will replace twitter in it's entirety.  

And to whatever a jts is, I meant it will replace twitter entirely for me.  Twitter itself can piss up a rope.  

[Brock Beauchamp]

The embeds are now cleaner, they work just like Twitter.

 

[CubinNY]

9 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

The embeds are now cleaner, they work just like Twitter.

 

Nice work for a beta cuck. 

[sneakypower]

it's pretty funny to think that an American could possibly ever retreat to a lefty ideological bubble, we're propagandized so effectively and comprehensively you'd have to take some really extreme measures to avoid encountering conservative/corporate framing of most any issue

i think the biggest difference really is just that this particular site doesn't give special precedence to the $8 anti-social freaks who want to follow people around shouting incendiary taunts

Edited November 26, 2024 by sneakypower

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, sneakypower said:

i think the biggest difference really is just that this particular site doesn't give special precedence to the $8 anti-social freaks who want to follow people around shouting incendiary taunts

That's the big difference for me. I don't need to be in an ideological bubble, I just want a reprieve from the worst horsefeathers humans on the planet spouting absolute nonsense at me.

And then there's the third-tier advertising that's just engagement farming, bots with half-naked avatars pestering everyone, etc...

[Rex Buckingham]

The ads on Twitter are the absolute worst part for me. I stay far away from the "For you" tab and don't really engage with much of anything. I follow sports accounts and a few people I know, so my feed usually isn't full of the garbage that populates 90% of that app/site