Twitter C/D

my only synergy dream is still for Disney to buy Nintendo

was really hoping to see an offer from BloopBlorp

31 followers, damn this is uphill

one problem I may face is being too concentrated in one or two subspheres of twitter, think I need to broaden out a little

tbh I have more followers and I am sure 90% of them are straight garbage, really need to delete all these ones that are pretty much bots

180 followers btw

137 for me but it's people in my field and definitely some bots. using it for work and during conferences (there are like who sub-conferences happening on twitter whenever i go to a conference) makes it easier to get followers

oh lol apparently my cousin's kid's twitter name is
@mylastname_mh

only content is two retweets and one is about loving thick girls

they shd srsly just sell to facebook doesnt facebook want them prob the only company that wldnt fuck it up

― lag∞n, Monday, September 26, 2016 7:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea. also too sometimes i debate whether to post something to twitter or to facebook and i cant decide, it would be nice to just have them integrated in some kind of way idk

oh shit some girl I almost went on a date w/from tinder follows me on twitter wtf

I really need to look through these lists more often, guys

if google really buys it I'm jumping the fuck out

yeah me too

just unfollowed all the CHAPOTRAPHOUSE dudes. I figure their funny non-podcast promotional tweets will still get retweeted into my feed

if google really buys it I'm jumping the fuck out

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:08 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah me too

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:08 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why?

because Google can eat a dick and I don't use their shitty services...? That goes for Facebook too.

it might be a harbinger of it turning into complete shit but tbh the end-times days of services are usually really entertaining

because Google can eat a dick and I don't use their shitty services...? That goes for Facebook too.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:22 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol ok tuff guy

google and facebook have some pretty good things imo

mainly because google is terrible about privacy and anonymity

I have no need for either

xp

Facebook sucks. google seems unavoidable to me but i guess if you were keen on it you could find ways to get around using any of its features. how do you, like, look up directions, shakey?

tomtom

apple maps is p good now too

Google is already indexing all your tweets and they're available in search so

yeah but Google links your accounts on various platforms

there are a ton of different map/search engines/whatever. acting like Google is the only one is sad.

I'm not interested in having all of my various doings linked to a single Google account, I will never do it.

Yeah I use Google search rarely (DuckDuckGo mostly) and Google anything else never (other than at work, on my work account). My old gmail is still accruing marketing email that I check on every six months or so.

I'm all in on iCloud

the only Google thing I willingly did was set up a youtube account for my band's videos and I even that I don't like doing/only did out of obligation

I do not "netflix and chill" as I prefer to use platforms unencumbered by digital rights management

xp yeah that's my issue, the way it hooks up your gmail, your youtube, even non google-based email accounts, drive, calendar etc. I'm starting to disentangle myself from all of it although it's tough bc of the convenience.

they're insanely clumsy at cross-platform aggregation and half the shit, even things they bought long ago like youtube, have different content policies

most of what you're getting is one sign-in to a bunch of sites, which is pretty ok

(enable two factor authentication, though, in case there's some sort of yahoo-style idiocy)

openstreetmap dudes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap

kind of hoping google buys twitter that way a lot of users jump ship because of not wanting to give google too much of their info

plus google has had many failed projects and i'm hoping this track record will help drive twitter down

OSM is a good group but I follow a handful of people connected to the project and they're really trying to position their efforts as far as getting people to volunteer to update things, block-by-block. They're really in the phase between being an enthusiast tool for data projects and being an enterprise-grade map provider for things like personal navigation

what i'm saying is flopson makes it sound like it's almost impossible to not use google maps' data set

there is osm for the hardcore users and apple maps uses tomtom's data

so there are a few main data sets that can be used and are being used

oh yeah it's definitely possible, I know a few companies use bing maps
(hard to type that and not laugh)
they apparently do have better maps in some rural areas and their licensing terms are better for some organizations

if you're paranoid going to another site is possible. just seems weird when googlemaps is already on my address bar, like i just have to type in an address

but.. if you set your default search engine to a difference site then you type in the address and get a different map service, lol

like even Chrome, a Google product, lets you select other search engines as default

heh. i guess i'm just comfy in default everything and never thought to change. it's nice :)

that's what they want you to think

you're their ideal product!

I'm used to changing because of whatever iOS version defaulted to some wack search by default. Did they go to bing when bing was bad? I forget.

The iOS default changed to Bing, I think, but at the same time they added DuckDuckGo as an option.

if you go to DDG in Minnesota is the mascot a grey duck instead of a goose?

ya i think it is bing

i use dolphin and i think it defaults to google

starting to use cesium instead of apple's music app too

The tortoise and the hare but instead it's you circling the same three blocks for eternity shrieking at Bing maps on your phone while i, who used googlemaps from my address line, cruise to the destination with time to spare. Then google sells my information for .0000001¢