Threads is available as a web page now, but you need to sign up on the app first, so I guess I won't be using Threads.
I think it's also time to give up on Instagram for a while. It suggested an account I had blocked the day before, and I've had other technical issues with it.
Enshittification comes to mind as the longer I browse Instagram reels the smaller the content becomes and the more comments appear around the video as it gets wrung through spam accounts.
The Instagram reels algorithm is just so damn aggressive. Occasionally I’ve enjoyed zoning out and having insta put moving pictures and sounds in front of my face, but it doesn’t take long till I have to pay attention again to cull the experience.
Yes I do like 15-20 second clips of absurd baseball plays such as a Japanese batter hitting the ball through a tiny opening in the stadium roof, no I don’t really like baseball, oh god why is everything now baseball!
Reels is terrible. All of them are too short - like I didn't even have the time to read the caption on the photo, or the video cuts off well before it's actually finished. Why present me with a short video if you're not going to show me the whole thing? I dislike Reels enough that I refuse to learn if there's ways to fix it.
Then I was having a problem where the feed wouldn't scroll past some posts - it would force focus back to something earlier in the feed.
The experience is poor in general, but at least I could find a decent number of people I wanted to follow on that platform. Maybe I'll just sit out a while, let the social media upheaval happen, and then think about it again.
Get ready to hate it more, as from what I understand that’s on purpose.
The algorithm heavily favors completed videos, even if they’re only a few seconds long, so sometimes letting a few of the same types of reels complete in a row will just shunt you down the path of more more more, even if the total watch time was only a few seconds.
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on a quiet policy change that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made last year that allows for election denial content in paid political ads. The report cited free speech as a major basis for Meta updating its political ad policy in August 2022 to allow advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that question the legitimacy of past elections, including the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
This means advertisers can now claim past elections were “rigged” or “stolen,” though they’re still prohibited from questioning the legitimacy of ongoing and future elections. Put simply, this new ad policy enables Meta to profit directly off of a lie that nearly destroyed American democracy.
Nothing has made me close facebook faster than facebook itself.
Open Facebook,
-Friend post from today.
--Garbage Meme
--Garbage meme
-Friend post from before Christmas.
--Fake DIY
--Out of context image
-Friend post from before Christmas... again.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
Close Facebook.
It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
It's always been shitty.
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Nothing has made me close facebook faster than facebook itself.
Open Facebook,
-Friend post from today.
--Garbage Meme
--Garbage meme
-Friend post from before Christmas.
--Fake DIY
--Out of context image
-Friend post from before Christmas... again.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
Close Facebook.
It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WORK REALLY HARD ON THOSE MEMES.
Nothing has made me close facebook faster than facebook itself.
Open Facebook,
-Friend post from today.
--Garbage Meme
--Garbage meme
-Friend post from before Christmas.
--Fake DIY
--Out of context image
-Friend post from before Christmas... again.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
Close Facebook.
It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WORK REALLY HARD ON THOSE MEMES.
BEHIND EVERY SHITTY MEME IS A PERSON WHO TRIED TO MAKE YOU SMILE.
OR ANGRY.
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Peering from the top of Mount Stupid
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Heavily interconnected internet is a failed experiment,
Example #156
•User on Reddit posts question about truffles their dog keeps finding.
•Post makes front page and extends outside the foraging community.
•10 hours later the amount of trolling has caused the user to delete their username and abandon the post. It took less than a day from having an interesting question to being driven off the platform.
This is the modern internet. Where the only way to make google function is to type "on Reddit" and the only way to ask a question on reddit is with a burner account in case the angry trolls notice.
Now I am going to post about how my dog finds gold nuggets when we are on a walk, and "Can I just throw them back in the stream?'"
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I understand that viewpoint, but I'm almost to the point of believing that they do not deserve free speech. Don't get me wrong: under the 1A, they're entitled to it, but I'm not sure they should be. World events are converting me to Karl Popper's views on the paradox of tolerance: that is, the continued existence of tolerance depends on not tolerating expressions of intolerance. Holocaust denial fits easily within those bounds.
Quote:
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
I may or may not have more to say about this later - I'm posting from my phone on a work break right now.
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
Was that Hitler or Stalin?
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"Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?""
This is one worry I have with cloud computing and other "Don't mind the company behind the curtain, just give your information to the great and powerful server," plans. It may start out all happy and innovative but a team change and all of a sudden they want to stab you in the back.
. More like ass rape you with out any lube
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"Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?""
Re: Bend Over, Facebook is Back
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