tell them to take the sub down to the sea floor then open the hatch
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:52 (four months ago) link
Ned is a key part of the bluesky experience
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:00 (four months ago) link
https://www.garbageday.email/p/duplicate-infiltrate-and-undermine
This newfound interest in Twitter as an influence network culminated in 2022, when Musk first announced he wanted to build a Twitter substitute (duplicate), before, in April, instead, offering to buy it (infiltrate). After his announcement, his phone started blowing up with texts from powerful folks in both tech and politics, including one still unknown sender who literally outlined a four step plan for reinventing Twitter that could basically be condensed down into “undermine, infiltrate, undermine, duplicate.” Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit. https://t.co/nxbqGBQiog pic.twitter.com/RbOImEl50M— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 20, 2022 As you can see, the assumption was that users and, more importantly, advertisers would stick around as Musk cannibalized Twitter. And now we know they haven’t. Users are fleeing, especially the important ones, and advertisers are finally beginning to move on, as well. This text is only part of the conversation, but it’s extremely funny that nowhere amid this supervillain monologue was it ever questioned if Twitter would continue to even be relevant as it transformed into Gab. Perhaps Musk didn’t have the “savvy cultural/political view” to pull it off.
Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit. https://t.co/nxbqGBQiog pic.twitter.com/RbOImEl50M— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 20, 2022
As you can see, the assumption was that users and, more importantly, advertisers would stick around as Musk cannibalized Twitter. And now we know they haven’t. Users are fleeing, especially the important ones, and advertisers are finally beginning to move on, as well. This text is only part of the conversation, but it’s extremely funny that nowhere amid this supervillain monologue was it ever questioned if Twitter would continue to even be relevant as it transformed into Gab. Perhaps Musk didn’t have the “savvy cultural/political view” to pull it off.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:03 (four months ago) link
Don't bother making your own social media, just make a discord or something
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:50 (four months ago) link
there used to be a social media platform called Ning that you could use to spin up a community-based site, but I think they went away and also they sucked. but it was not a bad idea.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:55 (four months ago) link
oh, they do still exist. I wonder if anyone uses it though
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:56 (four months ago) link
as Cass Elliott said, Make Your Own Kind of Social Media
― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:56 (four months ago) link
if you want to make the killer new social app you gotta build it yourself with the design-functionality being a deep expression of the idea of what it is, except you might be able to make some sort of twitter clone right now for particular reasons lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:59 (four months ago) link
i kinda think the era of pure social media is over tho, which doesnt mean social features wont live on, like tiktok has the famous like button but its more of a place to consume professionalish videos than a place for social posting
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:01 (four months ago) link
instagram is much more like tiktok than it once was and so forth
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:03 (four months ago) link
Nationalise Social Media
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:53 (four months ago) link
So the plan was, Let's turn Twitter into an online nest of Nazis a place that non-Nazis want to use?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:57 (four months ago) link
dan an interesting idea for building a new social network is to make the letterboxed of x, ie devoted to one topic and designed around that particularly rather than just copying facebook, like a letterboxed post is a review, idk what you would do particularly for music but itd be worth thinking through, prob someone has already made one, but ive never heard of it so it hasnt caught on
― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
There are some aspects of Letterboxd that I'm sure some see as shortcomings (e.g. no DMs) but that heavily contribute to it being the only social media thing I use at all anymore outside of ILX. Like you have to cultivate relationships out in the open by engaging with other people's output.
I like that.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:05 (four months ago) link
does anyone else get the thing where Twitter just seems too start sending you random Japanese crap at certain times? last three evenings have been Japanese cats, then Bento boxes, and tonight Japanese fishing, post after post of Japanese fishing
【リーフエッジの攻防】ロッドを曲げたのは猛者「コクハンアラ」https://t.co/9GTsHDRcku【タックルデータ】ロッド:BC4 6.10XH(Fishman)リール:OCEA CONQUEST LIMITED 301HG(SHIMANO)アングラー:照屋聖太 pic.twitter.com/fMZtRtrGE6— Fishman (@Fishman_BC) December 12, 2023
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:20 (four months ago) link
Fishman
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:22 (four months ago) link
holyyyshit ... .. fiiiiiiiiiissssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:23 (four months ago) link
Yeah I've looked at Ning and dozens of other things like that. They're all terrible.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:28 (four months ago) link
"A Blake Masters type"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:29 (four months ago) link
It's kind of fascinating to watch this real-time disintegration of social media sites. It's like a visual depiction of a decline into senility.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:00 (four months ago) link
Except that it's intentional.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:02 (four months ago) link
I mean, yeah, the overall demolition project is intentional, but I'm talking more about the incidental, entropic fallout of that project. I'm assuming that Elon didn't necessarily intend to direct users to a slew of Japanese fishing tweets for absolutely no reason.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:11 (four months ago) link
Elon more into Japanese fisting tweets
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:14 (four months ago) link
All links stopped working on X — can anyone tell me if that’s a feature people use pic.twitter.com/2dKuPIijKt— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:12 (four months ago) link
would join Dan’s social media site
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:17 (four months ago) link
Loooool
https://bsky.app/profile/cooperlund.bsky.social/post/3kgh6nrsaoc2d
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:45 (four months ago) link
xpost, that's one. Thanks.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:48 (four months ago) link
oops xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:56 (four months ago) link
I'm confused about bluesky. I go there and I just see mostly posts from one person. Her posts, here reposts, her comments. I can't tell if she's just THAT much more post crazy than everybody else I follow or if blue sky decided I need to mostly see her content at the expense of everybody else.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 23:34 (four months ago) link
I get the same but Ned.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 23:37 (four months ago) link
Also though you can set filters in bsky for like, only posts, no reposts etc. or only friends or only news etc
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 23:38 (four months ago) link
Yeah the defaults on the home feed preferences are weird
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 December 2023 00:20 (four months ago) link
― Alba, Thursday, 14 December 2023 07:37 (four months ago) link
no it was someone named Erin Biba. Now it's someone else.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 December 2023 12:49 (four months ago) link
yes you can definitely jink with the settings to cut back on how you want to see from one skeeter
― mark s, Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:14 (four months ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:39 (four months ago) link
not interested in just a music site, the ultimate goal is to not have it be about music. Id just use that to build an initially community and get discussion going. But as people were enjoying it they'd talk about other topics and invite their friends and then I'd put facebook out of business.
― stet, Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:48 (four months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:49 (four months ago) link
But in the format of a social media site, not a message board.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:11 (four months ago) link
wait what's the distinction? ilx is social media!
― mark s, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:16 (four months ago) link
no like button
― lag∞n, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:21 (four months ago) link
We don’t have enough Nazis
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:28 (four months ago) link
no avatars
― stet, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:33 (four months ago) link
Such astounding flaws!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:40 (four months ago) link
what did yall have for breakfast?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:47 (four months ago) link
What is happening?!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:04 (four months ago) link
First tell me what a woman is.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:04 (four months ago) link
on it! here's Bryan Adams
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:26 (four months ago) link
Just having brunch with these shit eating pigs! And i'm the biggest sh8t eater of all
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:29 (four months ago) link
(posts video of fight at McDonalds)
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:45 (four months ago) link
wait what's the distinction? ilx is social media!― mark s, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglinkno like button― lag∞n, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglinkWe don’t have enough Nazis― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:28 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglinkno avatars― stet, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:28 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― stet, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I would like the ability to reshare posts while adding my own commentary to them.
― peace, man, Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:46 (four months ago) link