Elon Musk

it's literally a version of civ that has been simplified for mobile play and has brightly colored graphics. it's pretty good?

he talks like a deep fake of himself

xp maybe a friend of his owns the game

(that is rampant speculation, sorry. but at any rate, i'm glad the limitations of chess have been addressed

lol I was briefly obsessed with Polytopia a few years back; caek's right, it's a simplified Civilization with cute icons, pretty addictive ime. I definitely liked it more than chess, but that's because it's much easier

one game lasted exactly as long as my commute when i lived in munich.

yeah that's an ideal use case

one of the limitations of chess is that it doesn't last as long as a hungover person's commute, and polytopia addresses this.

https://odditymall.com/includes/content/upload/star-trek-tridimensional-chess-set-4453.jpg

The design of Polytopia does look neat

Tetris addresses these limitations as well.

it's a great iphone game!

three more days until it becomes musk brand twitter

It's all (????) happening (????) https://t.co/TndbF00O6C

— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) October 25, 2022

lmao stock still stuck at $53. he's obviously going through with it and still nobody trusts this guy.

No idea why they wouldn't.

it would be nice if he tried one last minute gambit

he's gonna demand they split the stock on Friday morning, before he signs the check

I kinda agree with some less-panicked commentary I’ve heard that there’s not much he can do to change the platform and retain the particular userbase that makes it relevant. There’s a lot of professional media person panic about this kinda thing that might just skew their perception just a lil’

the professional media person demo is absoulutely essential to the product's value though

they're addicted, so i doubt they leave, but if they ever do then it's over.

yeah twitter is really more a broadcast system than a social network, and the high profile users are what makes it work

entire communities exist now because they've found each other being haters in the replies of high profile accounts

one thing a technical person said on twitter the other day is that twitter is somewhat protected from someone stealing their users by the fact that twitter is hard to build, which i think is somewhat true, like you cant just build a twitter clone and be like everyone come over here unless you have a lot of money and expertise at your disposal, you could have some new thing that slowly attracts users tho, and then eventual the media people come over

toot toot!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg/220px-Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg.png

Its like Facebook - try getting everyone you know of Facebook to move over to slack or something - it will never happen unless they are young rebels

Facebook won the social media race - like Microsoft won the OS wars - even though both are obvious shit

facebook is dying tho, social networks altogether might be dying

praise be

I hate the reels in Instagram! How obnoxious for them to just say "hey we are like tiktok now here are some vids from people you dont even follow"

yeah thats an indication that these platforms are moving away from the social model towards the broadcast model

I cant get anyone I know to use tiktok - the model seems to be "watch videos" but a lot of people dont want to make vidoes just watch them - so I see what you are saying.
Of course 18 year olds sit there all day making selfie videos so maybe its a generational thing
people who want an audience - how human - "Human, All Too Human" Nietzsche would have loved tiktok

someone I was talking to hypothesized a trickle-down where tiktok stuff gets reposted to instagram gets pulled into facebook

the minionization of video clips

the social type stuff following liking commenting etc will prob stay around but the truest presentation of social media the chronological friend feed is already dead, people thought facebook was the future but really it was youtube, facebook was unpleasant actually lol

lmao

Yikes lol pic.twitter.com/pc6SXl0Ulc

— Paul E Williams (@PEWilliams_) October 25, 2022

I mean that's true, people don't tweet all that much

the idea of a comment is pretty funny, you have an initial post then it has some baby posts parented by randos which are almost always bad, everyone hates the comments lol they were bad on blogs, theyre still bad, youtubers complain about their commenters all the time, commenters are causing genuine harm on twitter, this is of course a central feature of social media

I have seen a lot of tiktok videos on youtube so that is another trickle

you canupload someone else's video to your tiktok and get a thousand views and no one cares about copyright at all or credit

I was talking about this with my husband last night— "the dark forest is growing."

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1

I certainly post more on a private Discord server than I do anywhere else except ILX— I am tired of being perceived and "creating content"

yeah thats the other part of social media dying the conversation aspects are moving to more chat type platforms

turns out talking to everyone all at once was not the best way to talk

what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one

I have found Facebook to be a great place to get an audience for paintings and photography. That's the motivation-rewards loop - brief hit

Internet has such great potential for non-profit betterment of life - hopefully the dark forest will include such cozy cottages

and the "one" switches all the time, like kiss cam

xp

"what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one"
I like it - TalktoMebook

thats called the main character of the day, everyone tells them they should go to jail

yeah but what if tomorrow it was the shift manager at office depot

and suddenly everyone is talking to him

and suddenly everyone is talking to him

only if they say something bad online

i don't know, could be fun, i'm just saying let's flip the paradigm here