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― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
at least in the usa facebook is looking pretty dead i went on there the other day to see what people were saying about a particular news story and it was a ghost town, like there might not be another facebook/myspace type site on the way up but maybe people dont want that
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
I mean, their greatest strength (that it's an uncategorized mess with everyone shouting into the void) is also the greatest weakness. There's absolutely no way to suggest new people to follow, or any sort of "topics," outside of aggregation and algorithmic recommendations. Or employees hand-picking popular tweets and manually creating trending topics, which they also do afaict
lol remember hashtags
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
the old days where the twitter front page was every single tweet? that's the sauce
obvs facebook the company has more on its books than just the social network facebook tho, and popularity of its various properties varies worldwide
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
at least in the usa facebook is looking pretty dead
I look occasionally and feel embarrassed for people I know that are posting who aren't just sharing pictures of kids for the grandparents
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
i only use it to recruit people for my MLM
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
Azealia Banks has returned to Twitter. pic.twitter.com/LL4knbfDnS— Pop Base (@PopBase) April 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
lol zero tweets, 23k followers
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
yeah, that was the saving grace of twitter. You didn't have to explain all your jokes to your relatives.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
With FB you have to remember how much algorithmic crap scrambles what you see (unless you are actively going to specific people’s walls to see what’s up)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
I worked at Twitter in 2010 during @jack’s hostile return. Some fun memories:For one of my interview panels the interviewers didn’t show up, but I was still hired…👇🏽👇🏽— Nate Nate (@n8agrin) April 26, 2022
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
ha ha yeah I recently discovered that my friend has a kid the same age as mine, but Facebook hadn't been showing us each other's posts for years
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
I think fb still pretty massive with older, more conservative types?
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
exactly
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
Facebook hadn't been showing us each other's posts for years
I split from Facebook when I found out that a friend of mine committed suicide, only I didn't know about it because FB's algorithm had suppressed his posts because he had stopped posting.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
yeah, facebook definitely stops showing anything for people you haven’t engaged with
― mh, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
this is good fun if you like that stuff.
truly deranged origin story.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/1591847087.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
aren't they doing a movie of that i thought i heard
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
oh i guess it died in development hell
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
rip in piece
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake 'public opinion' for the benefit of the bourgeoisie."— Lenin Quotes (@leninquote) April 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 08:37 (two years ago) link
Yeah, we haven't seen a real friendster->myspace->facebook churn in years, although outside the US, other sites have dominance (especially in Russia/China)
Nostalgic for the era when Portugal was on the Hi5 train with the rest of the developing world.
You could send "fives" bestowing the status of "party animal", "supermodel", etc. on your friends.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link
Left Twitter a few weeks before Musk joined. It wasn't adding anything positive to my life, just sapping time. It was a simple case of "if something isn't making you happy stop doing it". Whereas here on ILX I do get enjoyment from it and respect the posters and their views.
For communication with IRL friends it is mainly WhatsApp now.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 10:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/lost-thread/
'a local maximum' is my new favourite description of the site.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
lol i reactivated, missed some things too much. unfollowed a bunch of annoying people though, mostly lib politics outrage merchant types.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 2 May 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
why did i think that i needed to see judd lugum follow lowe's gop donations like a hawk or whatever for so long jesus
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 2 May 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
otm
some of the people I've followed were experts on something or another and I felt like.. I wanted to be more informed?
turns out I don't want to know any of this shit
― mh, Monday, 2 May 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
animals (wild/pet), jokes, bands, architecture and the Longreads account, the key to avoiding the worst excesses of twitter
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 May 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
and Instagram
probably TikTok too but so far they let me click on links of puppy videos from friends without needing to set up an account
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 May 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
Love twitte but there's no way I'm paying for it lol
REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to fire 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, his presentation to investors shows https://t.co/xJ6HkLv6MH— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 May 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link
i don’t even pay for ilx ffs
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:25 (two years ago) link
paywalled social media on that scale does not seem like it will ever be a thing tbh
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:26 (two years ago) link
I'd do a one-off payment for ilx server maintenance but no way am I paying for twitter.
xp = yeah, think it will be a while yet, if ever.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:28 (two years ago) link
right. have contributed to the server fund for sure, happy to do it again. never signing up for a monthly fee ever
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:29 (two years ago) link
how about metered usage. every ilx post you read to cost 1 cent, with 60% going to “creators”
Basic Twitter remains free, ability to @ anyone - premium tier.
― Alba, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
damn just when i was considering rejoining so i could @ megan mcardle
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Sunday, 8 May 2022 11:55 (two years ago) link
How do I contribute to ILX fees?
Have never done this but would gladly do so.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 May 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link
if necessary a thread appears every so often soliciting funds
― mh, Sunday, 8 May 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
It's very wholesome like a telethon
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 May 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
free users only get to see gifs from the Office
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 9 May 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
Using twitter at this point feels like smoking out of a trache hole because smoking is so awesome and cool tbh. But it’ll be better once we get Elon’s new Unfiltered Twitter, that pure tweeting satisfaction.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
there will be more voices in the conversation, fewer bots, more good conversations and global collaborations in the digital town square that we've all come to count on
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
If your town sq is suddenly infested with super predator killer bees, the answer is to let everyone get stung a lot by unfettered bees. If anyone is immune to bee venom, they will survive and breed free of abortions and later repopulate yr town sq. Problem solved. The bees will get bored and go away or die down. Just like covid has.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
This guy is a Facebook creep but this is admittedly a good thread that breaks it down to an extent
Watching Elon try to openly recreate several decades of trust and safety work by tens of thousands of people from first principles is likely to give me a stroke. https://t.co/QurCunPkrR— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) May 11, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Bureaucracies can be maddening, but "Let's let a dumb rich guy make up new rules" is not an optimal solution
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
it worked for the u.s. government!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
that Stamos thread is v otm, esp the fact that Musk seems not to realize Twitter operates in multiple legal jurisdictions
― rob, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
hes just talking its what hes good at telling people what they want to hear
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link