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

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.

i use twitter the most but it's probably the worst of all of these. something about the format encourages the worst side of humanity. even a lot of ppl i would normally find funny seem vaguely sociopathic on twitter. that said it is great for following unfolding events, way easier than just refreshing a news site over and over again.

facebook is the least fun of these to use. i think the only reason i haven't deleted my account is that it's easier to keep up with local events if you have it.

i actually enjoy instagram a lot but it is kind of a frustratingly limited platform to use, not being able to save images is especially annoying.

i'm curious why anyone would think youtube is worse than any of these, the awfulness of youtube comments aside.

Twitter can suck but it's also the only time I ever see things from strangers that are genuinely funny or insightful.

Instagram is the most pleasant but part of me thinks it might the most insidious and worst for me mentally

YouTube has been pushing extreme content and far right stuff on people for ages, is probably why. That and all the weird disturbing content targeted at children and the paedo-magnet videos that are clearly catering to some sort of fetish audience but are just barely on the side of legality.

facebook is going to win trump the election again so probably that? twitter was worse for my mental health. i now only use instagram and mainly to look at the old friends senior dog sanctuary account and the kangaroo sanctuary account

idk what discord is and i refuse to learn

― american bradass (BradNelson)

it's where all the genderqueer people on the internet are

hey, random question, is there a button i can push to make firefox stop virtue signaling at me?

YouTube’s highs (live music performances) are higher than any other service’s, its lows are lower.

The only one I use of the 3 is fb. I was a relatively late joiner and it took me a couple of years to realize I was supposed to check it on a consistent basis. Instagram is fluff.commercials and twitter is fucking terrible. How do most people engage with that shit and think it's the real world. UGH. Maybe I hate it more for how often it's forced onto ilx.

I just started reading reddit in 2019. I really like it, but I also don't have login to post which might be best use. I find it very informative.

It's worth creating an account just so you can subscribe to the subreddits you're interested in and tune out the dregs that consistently make it to the top (e.g. /r/PewdiepieSubmissions).

Twitter is the most actively harmful

Facebook is the most inept at doing anything that is any use to anyone in 2020

Instagram is the most wholesome but has pretty annoying ads. Lately I've been getting ads for all these magnificently shit urban fantasy novels written by weird dads with like 8 likes tho, which is fine

the amount of clicks it takes to view the posts you've liked in Insta does strike me as sinister though, like “oh that feature wasn't there for *you* but sure ok“

The problem I had with twitter wasn't that I couldn't filter out all the gross/negative/stupid shit, it's that all the funny good people I liked were driving themselves and each other insane about the negative shit, unintentionally aggregating it

I do appreciate that Reddit has usually supplanted annoying Youtube videos in being the first Google result for queries about tricky bits of video games, often as part of some extremely comprehensive FAQ stickied by eager to help youths

RIP gamefaqs tho

if you carefully curate what you follow on insta it can be a beautiful thing, just follow music / art / photography stuff and keep all the other bullshit on the other platforms. i mostly just oogle it though, hardly ever post

I really only follow like 60 odd accounts on insta, mostly family & friends. But because I follow Tokyu Hands’s cat cafe (nekobukuro_official), I keep getting recommendations like <cat account with Japanese name> has just joined. I like it for stories and posting interesting art and things I see, but I accept that’s not most people’s experience, especially those who use it more.

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