Twitter C/D

as Cass Elliott said, Make Your Own Kind of Social Media

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

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

instagram is much more like tiktok than it once was and so forth

Nationalise Social Media

So the plan was, Let's turn Twitter into an online nest of Nazis a place that non-Nazis want to use?

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.

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

Fishman

holyyyshit ... .. fiiiiiiiiiissssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yeah I've looked at Ning and dozens of other things like that. They're all terrible.

"A Blake Masters type"

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.

Except that it's intentional.

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.

Elon more into Japanese fisting tweets

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

would join Dan’s social media site

Loooool

https://bsky.app/profile/cooperlund.bsky.social/post/3kgh6nrsaoc2d

xpost, that's one. Thanks.

oops xp

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.

I get the same but Ned.

Also though you can set filters in bsky for like, only posts, no reposts etc. or only friends or only news etc

Yeah the defaults on the home feed preferences are weird

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.

no it was someone named Erin Biba. Now it's someone else.

yes you can definitely jink with the settings to cut back on how you want to see from one skeeter

I get the same but Ned.

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.

lol

But in the format of a social media site, not a message board.

wait what's the distinction? ilx is social media!

no like button

We don’t have enough Nazis

no avatars

Such astounding flaws!

what did yall have for breakfast?

What is happening?!

First tell me what a woman is.

on it! here's Bryan Adams

Just having brunch with these shit eating pigs! And i'm the biggest sh8t eater of all

(posts video of fight at McDonalds)

wait what's the distinction? ilx is social media!

― mark s, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

no like button

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

We don’t have enough Nazis

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:28 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

no avatars

― 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.

I'm more about resharing without commentary and watching chaos unfold ;-)

Soooo good @tacobell

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 13, 2023

NEW: An AI app that creates deep-fake nudes of women for the purpose of blackmail is currently advertising to users on X, formerly Twitter. https://t.co/NqehoIEbzD

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) December 14, 2023

fucking hell!

AI (this tech bro version of it anyway) sorta fits in my head as the new crypto.

My social media idea was Bucket List - you just join, share all the things you want to do before keeling over and people encourage each other and share photos of checking things off and whatever. This would undoubtedly last a week before Nazis ruined it.