2k20 worst social media platform (facebook, twitter, instagram)

I mean it is still kind of dreadful but it has a slightly substantial purpose when used well

otoh it annoys me that I have to maintain a skeleton presence on fb to touch base with ilxors offboard. let's start our own private messaging platform and we can all leave for good

otm (although I’m really just there for meme pages)

^^ otm

[a]Ilxbook
[b]Ilxtagram
[c]ilx0r

a live chat with various rooms wouldn't be too hard to implement to the ilx site surely

same login, same username

or... an ilx discord lol

not the worst idea I’ve ever heard

but wouldn’t here just die?

instagram's badness is more insidious. i have a dumb idea about the insidious nature of google image search and other image search engines - the "algorithm" (uh oh - i learned on twitter recently that i'm a piece of shit for using that word in a vague way!) results in pristine, glossy catalog platonic ideals of even mundane objects. when you google image search for Living Room, you won't see what a living room typically looks like. you will an infinite series of perfect living rooms that will always be beyond your reach. your own living room does not belong with these living rooms. it's like that with pretty much anything you search for. you will only see beautiful advertisement people, model home furniture and accessories, things that are for sale, and then a bunch of low-resolution 3D model assets that some company is selling. what does all that have to do with instagram? i'm not sure, but it feels like the people and places i see on instagram are being sucked into the same weird thing. we all post the best version of our lives, and as we see each other irl less and less, these selective images are what's left to form mental pictures of each other. the third image down is an advertisement, and it's related to something you bought using a credit card last week. how did they know that? children have thousands of published images of them before they hit kindergarten, and embedded in each of those images is psychographic data that is then sold to other companies.

anyway, i vote for instagram but i understand it's more of an "up-and-comer" in this rivalry

I've been doing a social media campaign for a fostering organisation to get more people into fostering. Of course, for security reasons we couldn't use real images of foster families, but trying to get suitable stock images was nigh impossible. All these photos of squeaky-clean kids in backwards baseball caps in picture-postcard familial settings were unrealistic and would have idealised the fostering experience. It ended up being a serious headache for us and our client.

Reddit is good but not good not bad.

I only really use Facebook. I know it's terrible, but it's one of the only ways I can keep in touch with friends, promote my events, find out what's going on in my locale. It also works as a nice extension of ILX to discuss current affairs and culture with people I only know through the internet.

I have Instagram and Twitter accounts, but rarely use them.

I find Twitter bewildering and never got used to the idea of how threads and replies work. I hate the character limit. I hate the 'Now I am going to say something important and you are going to listen because I am a very smart person' tone of a lot of the posts. I'm also concerned about how open and public it all is.

Having little to no interest in what famous people are tweeting about, I have even less interest in what they're promoting for breakfast. Instagram just feels like a big promotional platform (and yes I know that goes for all social platforms, but still). Why anyone would willingly want to follow an influencer who's paid to pose with various products is just bizarre to me. As for photos, yeah I get people like to take photos of their holidays - but why would I be interested in looking at these on a tiny square-shaped screen? I think I'm missing the point of it perhaps as many of my friends are super invested.

I hate the character limit. I hate the 'Now I am going to say something important and you are going to listen because I am a very smart person' tone of a lot of the posts.

Combined, these two factors result in smarmy 'threads' that read like cramped manifestos. Burn it all down.

There's been talk of ILK moving to platforms over the years*, but part of the secret of ILX's success cockroach-like tenacity over the years is that a plain black-on-white site doesn't obviously look like not working.

*Arguably LiveJournal worked!

*ILX - I Love the Klukluxklan was eventually moved off to become Spiked

Yeah I loved Livejournal for years but then it fell off massively. I have a dreamwidth now but it’s not the same.

I don't think an ilx discord would kill ilx

Amended - might kill some of the participants. I’m part of two servers and have both muted for a good reason most of the time.

(genuinely surprised that a whole 15 seconds of research indicates that Dom never wrote for Spiked)

Discord's relative instantaneousness strikes me as less of a blessing than a curse. I, for one, appreciate the delay in posting to ILX, as it helps mitigate some of the more extreme consequences of procrastination.

I hate facebook as much as I have done for years, unfortunately it's my only channel of communication to lots of friends around the world.

I have made peace with twitter by using selective following, blocks and muted words, I like it more than I did

Cannot get to grips with instagram, it looks better than facebook but i hate how it walls off its own content and won't let me link anything

Discord's relative instantaneousness strikes me as less of a blessing than a curse. I, for one, appreciate the delay in posting to ILX, as it helps mitigate some of the more extreme consequences of procrastination.

― pomenitul, Monday, January 20, 2020 1:25 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Absolutely otm. Discord might not 'kill ilx', but I can't see what it would add, or rather what need it would fulfill.

one *particularly* wrong and wrongheaded post itt, the rest is noise

If I nuke my FB, does it kill/otherwise fuck with my Messenger acct? I have FB deactivated and I'd love to just get rid of it but I still use Messenger a lot.

Yeah it should (and messenger is awful, what’s the appeal)?

Twitter is the most fun, but that also means it's the worst for my mental health. I've been taking a break from it since the beginning of the year, and I feel like I just have more space to think and to do other things that aren't compulsively looking at Twitter whenever I have a spare moment.

Yeah it should (and messenger is awful, what’s the appeal)?

I just have ppl on there it would be a pain to migrate over to Whatsapp/Telegram/whatever.

what if I said I loved them all

This is why reddit is good btw:

https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/comments/er6p9d/worst_hold_music_ever/

reddit is better than facebook but worse than everything else

If I nuke my FB, does it kill/otherwise fuck with my Messenger acct? I have FB deactivated and I'd love to just get rid of it but I still use Messenger a lot.

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, January 20, 2020 12:59 PM (forty-six minutes ago)

When I last deactivated my FB account, I couldnt log into Spotify as it was in tandem with my FB. I couldnt find any way around it either

That's how they get ya.

Absolutely otm. Discord might not 'kill ilx', but I can't see what it would add, or rather what need it would fulfill.

otm - all ilx content must be archived here on the borad in perpeuity so that i can dig up people's bad takes 15 years later and clown them

I think Discord archives in perpetuity too? You just need to do a lot of scrolling

i don't have that kind of physical stamina

my spotify was connected to my FB and when i killed my FB my spotify acct still existed it just turned the login name into like a random 12-digit string of numbers

i don't know that an ilx discord would "kill ilx" but it might have some effect on 77

i think it says something about how damn old we all are that there isn't an ilx discord already

other forums ive been on the spinoff discords are for specific topics rather than just a general 'this is the discord for the forum' since the latter creates weird social stratifications

what i'm saying is ilx and discord are my two preferred social platforms but i would not join an ilx discord

idk what discord is and i refuse to learn

groupchat that autoembeds, that's all

This is why reddit is good btw:

https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/comments/er6p9d/worst_hold_music_ever/

― pomenitul, Monday, January 20, 2020 7:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao that's incredible, reminds me a lot of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDAytqFrUk

anyway I've told this story in another thread but one day after the work Christmas party FB's facial recognition bot spotted me way in the background of someone else's photo, even though I didn't know any of the people in it and don't have any mutual friends, that freaked me out enough to consider just dropping it wholesale

unfortunately my monthly poker game is run through there so I kinda have to keep it for something

xp amazing, I hadn't seen that one yet.

Further back in time:

https://youtu.be/i6LAVk1sHW8

coincidentally this all sounds like music that's been recommended to me by this message board

The shitty hold music is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuFTCirwmoM

why they chose it is another matter

xxp ooh tasty!

discord is pretty identical to slack if you know what that is. but targeted at nerds/gamers instead of workplaces

and i refuse to learn

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 20, 2020 7:48 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hate that facebook and twitter are basically a necessity re: putting out music but I otherwise don't engage with them. not sure which is worse on the terrible-impacts-on-society scale.

never been on instagram.

I know which has had the more terrible impact on ILX, that's for sure.

it's skins

Fun little read but I don't see much to actually support the headline. No real indication that new "top-level product group" is taking resources from metaverse.

what is the metaverse use case for crypto, though?

nfts originated as part of a virtual world game, so they could try to monetize that approach by running their own roulette crypto table.

yikes: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/20/instagram-palestinian-user-profile-bios-terrorist-added-translation-meta-apology

almost impressed at the baldfacedness of claiming this was a bug

"sometime last night, the core software Instagram runs on became racist"

Facebook is really dead, isn't it? I barely open it anymore. last time I posted a status update, I noticed that over a month had gone by since my prior update. When I scroll through my feed it's 2/3 ads and junk content, 1/3 the same 10 people, none of whom are even close friends or family.

Thought I would see how long it took to see a post from a friend on Facebook. Scrolled past

* 3 posts from groups/pages I follow
* 12 ads
* 5 posts from people I don't know or follow
* 22 posts from groups/pages I don't follow

Before I found my first post from a friend, the 45th post in total, not counting the reels (also not from friends)

(just posted that on fb an hour ago! synchronicity!)

My feed right now

1 post from college friend I haven't seen in 15 years

8 ads/junk posts/media posts in a row

1 post from guy who briefly played in my band and photographed my wedding

9 junk/media/group posts in a row

1 post from college friend I haven't seen in 20 years

10 junk/media/group posts

1 post from dude I only know through facebook, and barely

And it just goes on like that for probably hundreds of posts - in fact I gave up before I found a single update from someone I'd legit call a friend that I've actually seen in the last decade, a family member (other than one from my wife's aunt), or even a neighbor.

It's full of junk unless you go to "menu" and "feeds". Then it's only half-full of junk and people you used to know

it's Facebook

https://bsky.app/profile/mims.bsky.social/post/3lfd4tl2tl22k

billionaires all ended up becoming the same person

"People that aren't tapping into the MetaVerse are obviously virtue signalling..."

*sent while e-wakefoiling on Lake Tahoe*

https://i.imgur.com/77pFcZp.png