Yeah it should (and messenger is awful, what’s the appeal)?
I just have ppl on there it would be a pain to migrate over to Whatsapp/Telegram/whatever.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
what if I said I loved them all
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 January 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
This is why reddit is good btw:
https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/comments/er6p9d/worst_hold_music_ever/
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 January 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
reddit is better than facebook but worse than everything else
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 January 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
If I nuke my FB, does it kill/otherwise fuck with my Messenger acct? I have FB deactivated and I'd love to just get rid of it but I still use Messenger a lot.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, January 20, 2020 12:59 PM (forty-six minutes ago)
When I last deactivated my FB account, I couldnt log into Spotify as it was in tandem with my FB. I couldnt find any way around it either
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 20 January 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
That's how they get ya.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
Absolutely otm. Discord might not 'kill ilx', but I can't see what it would add, or rather what need it would fulfill.
otm - all ilx content must be archived here on the borad in perpeuity so that i can dig up people's bad takes 15 years later and clown them
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 January 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
I think Discord archives in perpetuity too? You just need to do a lot of scrolling
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
i don't have that kind of physical stamina
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
my spotify was connected to my FB and when i killed my FB my spotify acct still existed it just turned the login name into like a random 12-digit string of numbers
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 January 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
i don't know that an ilx discord would "kill ilx" but it might have some effect on 77
i think it says something about how damn old we all are that there isn't an ilx discord already
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
other forums ive been on the spinoff discords are for specific topics rather than just a general 'this is the discord for the forum' since the latter creates weird social stratifications
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 January 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
what i'm saying is ilx and discord are my two preferred social platforms but i would not join an ilx discord
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 January 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
idk what discord is and i refuse to learn
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
groupchat that autoembeds, that's all
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
― pomenitul, Monday, January 20, 2020 7:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao that's incredible, reminds me a lot of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDAytqFrUk
― frogbs, Monday, 20 January 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
anyway I've told this story in another thread but one day after the work Christmas party FB's facial recognition bot spotted me way in the background of someone else's photo, even though I didn't know any of the people in it and don't have any mutual friends, that freaked me out enough to consider just dropping it wholesale
unfortunately my monthly poker game is run through there so I kinda have to keep it for something
― frogbs, Monday, 20 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
xp amazing, I hadn't seen that one yet.
Further back in time:
https://youtu.be/i6LAVk1sHW8
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 January 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
coincidentally this all sounds like music that's been recommended to me by this message board
― frogbs, Monday, 20 January 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
The shitty hold music is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuFTCirwmoM
why they chose it is another matter
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
xxp ooh tasty!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 January 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
discord is pretty identical to slack if you know what that is. but targeted at nerds/gamers instead of workplaces
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 January 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
and i refuse to learn
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 20, 2020 7:48 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 20 January 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
I hate that facebook and twitter are basically a necessity re: putting out music but I otherwise don't engage with them. not sure which is worse on the terrible-impacts-on-society scale.
never been on instagram.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
I know which has had the more terrible impact on ILX, that's for sure.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
i use twitter the most but it's probably the worst of all of these. something about the format encourages the worst side of humanity. even a lot of ppl i would normally find funny seem vaguely sociopathic on twitter. that said it is great for following unfolding events, way easier than just refreshing a news site over and over again.
facebook is the least fun of these to use. i think the only reason i haven't deleted my account is that it's easier to keep up with local events if you have it.
i actually enjoy instagram a lot but it is kind of a frustratingly limited platform to use, not being able to save images is especially annoying.
i'm curious why anyone would think youtube is worse than any of these, the awfulness of youtube comments aside.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
Twitter can suck but it's also the only time I ever see things from strangers that are genuinely funny or insightful.Instagram is the most pleasant but part of me thinks it might the most insidious and worst for me mentally
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
YouTube has been pushing extreme content and far right stuff on people for ages, is probably why. That and all the weird disturbing content targeted at children and the paedo-magnet videos that are clearly catering to some sort of fetish audience but are just barely on the side of legality.
― steer karma (gyac), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
facebook is going to win trump the election again so probably that? twitter was worse for my mental health. i now only use instagram and mainly to look at the old friends senior dog sanctuary account and the kangaroo sanctuary account
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson)
it's where all the genderqueer people on the internet are
hey, random question, is there a button i can push to make firefox stop virtue signaling at me?
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
YouTube’s highs (live music performances) are higher than any other service’s, its lows are lower.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
The only one I use of the 3 is fb. I was a relatively late joiner and it took me a couple of years to realize I was supposed to check it on a consistent basis. Instagram is fluff.commercials and twitter is fucking terrible. How do most people engage with that shit and think it's the real world. UGH. Maybe I hate it more for how often it's forced onto ilx.
I just started reading reddit in 2019. I really like it, but I also don't have login to post which might be best use. I find it very informative.
― Yerac, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
It's worth creating an account just so you can subscribe to the subreddits you're interested in and tune out the dregs that consistently make it to the top (e.g. /r/PewdiepieSubmissions).
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Twitter is the most actively harmful
Facebook is the most inept at doing anything that is any use to anyone in 2020
Instagram is the most wholesome but has pretty annoying ads. Lately I've been getting ads for all these magnificently shit urban fantasy novels written by weird dads with like 8 likes tho, which is fine
the amount of clicks it takes to view the posts you've liked in Insta does strike me as sinister though, like “oh that feature wasn't there for *you* but sure ok“
The problem I had with twitter wasn't that I couldn't filter out all the gross/negative/stupid shit, it's that all the funny good people I liked were driving themselves and each other insane about the negative shit, unintentionally aggregating it
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
I do appreciate that Reddit has usually supplanted annoying Youtube videos in being the first Google result for queries about tricky bits of video games, often as part of some extremely comprehensive FAQ stickied by eager to help youths
RIP gamefaqs tho
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
if you carefully curate what you follow on insta it can be a beautiful thing, just follow music / art / photography stuff and keep all the other bullshit on the other platforms. i mostly just oogle it though, hardly ever post
― jazz fusion is sex (NickB), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
I really only follow like 60 odd accounts on insta, mostly family & friends. But because I follow Tokyu Hands’s cat cafe (nekobukuro_official), I keep getting recommendations like <cat account with Japanese name> has just joined. I like it for stories and posting interesting art and things I see, but I accept that’s not most people’s experience, especially those who use it more.
― steer karma (gyac), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
I've been doing a social media campaign for a fostering organisation to get more people into fostering. Of course, for security reasons we couldn't use real images of foster families, but trying to get suitable stock images was nigh impossible. All these photos of squeaky-clean kids in backwards baseball caps in picture-postcard familial settings were unrealistic and would have idealised the fostering experience. It ended up being a serious headache for us and our client.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, January 20, 2020 5:33 AM
I've mentioned this before elsewhere, but some acquaintances were fostering a brother and a sister. They knew the rules, but couldn't keep from posting events on Instagram anyway. They did a remarkable job of keeping the children out of the photographs, but everything was set up like:
https://i.imgur.com/MnahaLs.png
Except replace "friends" with "family" and "Nathan Fielder" with "their dog".
The girl had a birthday party and the picture was taken from behind a group of adults standing behind the children who were between the adults and the birthday cake. You could kinda see the glow of the flames behind the shadows.
Why go through all this? I dunno. Gotta get them likes somehow.
― pplains, Monday, 20 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
yea this is very true, case in point the Kent State gun girl who basically built a career out of getting yelled at on Twitter
Reddit has its own problems but it's at least pretty easy to curate your experience on. If nothing else it's pretty good for niche/conceptual humor, stuff like r/wheredidthesodago, r/restofthefuckingowl, r/bonehurtingjuice, etc. Also the NBA sub is surprisingly great, as it seems to be populated by a bunch of people with a lot of time on their hands
― frogbs, Monday, 20 January 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
Facebook is awful and useless. Twitter is great. I don’t understand the appeal of Instagram at all.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 January 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
honestly, none; there is this widespread perception that people on social media aren't real people, and that the hostility there also isn't real, which (bots/trolls aside, but there are so many false positives) is obviously false. which is why, I think, people blame "social media" as uniquely toxic, because the alternative would be really grappling with the idea that people are just like this and maybe just hid it better
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
ello is relatively harmless
― I have not yet begun to fart (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
haven't read all of this thread yet but imo: twitter >>>>> instagram > facebook
― Dan S, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
Worst thing about Facebook is that it attracts a never-ending shitstream of fuckwitted bellends who think their algorithmically-target feed is just the way things are, and vote for Trump/Brexit/Hitler as a result.
Worst thing about Twitter is obnoxiously political Americans who Punctuate. Their. Tweets. For Emphasis. Like. This. It's like being poked in the chest while someone's yelling at you for no reason. e.g. "Listen. Up. Y'all. Gotta. Do. Better." or whatever. Fuck all that.
Myspace seems so innocent in retrospect, also it was occasionally useful.
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
there is much opportunity for continually changing your experience on twitter if you are free about following/unfollowing
― Dan S, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine)
i mean it's _real_, anybody who works in healthcare knows how nasty people can be in person (and i personally suspect that they don't, particularly, hide it better offline), but social media does have this uniquely distancing effect of shielding people from the consequences of their actions. it feels good to be an asshole to someone on the internet in a way that it usually doesn't in person.
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
Somehow the relentless negativity on Twitter is more palatable and less exhausting to me than the relentless positivity on Instagram
― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
Social media encourages people to be assholes for attention because of the distancing - in real life the Ohio State gun girl gets isolated and eventually ignored, with social media she gets an InfoWars contract.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 04:42 (four years ago) link
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, January 20, 2020 11:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
maybe this is a growing up in the south vs. not growing up in the south thing but in real life the ohio state gun girl absolutely does not get isolated or ignored
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 06:06 (four years ago) link
I grew up in Texas - she definitely does. You can be a reactionary evangelical psycho all you want but politeness is still expected (I mean, especially from a young woman...).
Twitter (and way before that Usenet/forum flame wars, etc.) encourages you to own people for the little dopamine rush of a bunch of likes/community status/etc.. The person yelling in the bar is cold shouldered by everyone, the person who is relentlessly negative about others finds themself wondering why they have no friends.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link