systemic problem
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
I should really start keeping a file of all the horrible comments I report that turn out not to violate community standards, because it happens ALL THE TIME.
xp to Boring, Maryland: Oh, the Jack Acid Society comes up from time to time. There are some real Pogo experts in the group and they have a fine old time talking to each other about all the minutiae of Walt Kelly's art. I actually feel fine about the group itself; it seems to provide some interest and connection for a lot of people my parents' age, and I moderate it carefully enough to keep it from turning into a dumpster fire like most Facebook groups. I just wish it weren't on Facebook, because it keeps me trapped there.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
zero percent success rate at finding a $1200 Rhodes piano
Man, that's the last straw. Fuck Facebook forever.
Perhaps we could crowdfund this?
― Nostradamusferatu (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
xp my solution to this many years ago was creating a facebook page for my dog, which i kept secret, and adding fido as an administrator on the pages and groups i managed at the time (but have ling since abandoned) before deleting myself.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
make Beauregard Bugleboy the admin of the Pogo group
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
lol crut
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 June 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/06/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-clashes-with-facebook-in-social-media-giant-s-first-appearance-before-mps.html
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2021 05:03 (two years ago) link
I just got a 30 day FB ban for writing "shut the fuck up you dumbshit hamster".
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
u fucked w the wrong hamster apparently
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
Zuck apparently needs another run on the wheel this mornin
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
pick on a species your own size next time
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
"shut the fuck up you middle aged fat bearded guy with a bad back!"
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
*half of ILX turns around*
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/029/191/cover6.jpg
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
Haha, a Facebook ban is probably good, you know? I woke up today and started yelling at some baseball analyst because he was making fun of the new name that replaced a racist name of a baseball team. I did this within 10 minutes of waking up and also picked a fight with the racist commenters on fangraphs. This is not good for us, or for humanity
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
to be fair, I'm very very glad they changed that team name, but the "Guardians" is indeed dumb and they copped out by not going back to the Spiders with their 1887 logo.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
hot takes of the day:1. all mascot names are bad, but ones that replace racist mascot names are less bad and are therefore good2. picking fights w ppl on twitter is never good, just find reportable tweets and mute/block and forget they exist3. getting tempbanned from fb is good fullstop
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
xp Yeah, i think that’s the natural reaction! and people are just reacting to the new name. But upon waking, my first thoughts were “I don’t recall the baseball ZiPS guy ever criticizing the name of the Cleveland Indians, or the stadium full of white people in Atlanta doing the tomahawk chop while also impersonating native Americans, but yet he suddenly has a lot of criticisms for the replacement name”Which is just...I’m going camping for real. I’m packing right now, in fact I’m running late. I’m camping way down in the Ozarks, where there are no racists. No more Twitter for me today. And no more Facebook for you today, Nean! <3
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
m bison I will ruminate on the hot takes while sweating my ass off in the shade tonight. I believe these takes are right
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Have fun KM! Enjoy your trip!
Yeah there are a lot of ugly as fuck takes on sports Twitter, I can't stand 98% of sports guys tweets.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
my hoops burner acct is in fact the only good sports twitter acct afaik
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
I'm assuming that this will end in nothing but tears and ruin, but I've been helping some people put together a new group, a revival of one of the "Respect My Trans Homies" cis/trans alliance groups. So far all of the other admin seem to be normal and sane people.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 23 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
I got dozens of targeted posts about linda rondstadt’s birthday.
Now the same is happening for Alison Krauss’s.
Why?
― treeship., Monday, 26 July 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
you are attracted to female folk singers?
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 July 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
I do like female folk singerz. I never liked the pages of these two specific artists though.
― treeship., Monday, 26 July 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
must be completely random then
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 July 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
But who is behind this? These birthday pushes? They come from different pages.
― treeship., Monday, 26 July 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
sounds like facebook sucks, maybe
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
maybe you're close social media friends with people who are love female folk singers.....birthdays...
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
My ex who's struggled with disordered eating for 15 years has been getting non-stop ads for weight loss apps and shit lately.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 26 July 2021 07:41 (two years ago) link
when I still used it: Ad blockers and incognito mode was the way.
― beard papa, Monday, 26 July 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
keep seeing video on facebook with the progress bar removed, i find this sooo annoying lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
That happened to me two times yesterday, brad - as if fb isn't annoying enough already
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
Is Facebook actually fun for anyone anymore? I have to keep it around for work and I message memes to a couple of people but it just seems miserable overall, anything fun shifted to Instagram or TikTok, maybe Twitter.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
meme and niche communities are fun
that's it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah I just check it for a couple communities and updates from a few friends who post interesting stuff, but often I'll get sucked into stupid videos or articles or whatever other garbage gets pushed. "Fun" is rarely a word I'd use to describe this process
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 03:53 (two years ago) link
There are people in my life - schoolmates, semidistant relatives, former neighbors, ex-girlfriends, former colleagues, former bandmates, members of scene-adjacent bands - that I neither want to forget forever, nor do I want close personal contact with.
Facebook is very good at allowing me to finely calibrate my contact with them (and, it should be said, their contact with me). I can restrict what I expose to whom. Some people can see what I'm up to musically, others can exchange kid-related stuff, and I can limit political things both to and from different groups of people.
Tldr: These are people I would not ever directly call or email, but who I'm not ready to completely drift away from. Don't most people have that category? How do you reach them if not FB?
― trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:14 (two years ago) link
I think that is a good category.
I'm a bit surprised that a Friends Reunited (school/college/university colleagues by year) site hasn't re-emerged, as that did a lot better job of allowing you to see what former colleagues are up to without requiring close contact or being deluged by unwanted postings.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link
I just find Instagram fiddly and hard to use and I don't really care about pictures much
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
instagram is extremely bad and must be stopped
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
facebook's most basic function is v attractive, it's nice to have a free-floating address book of ppl you've known throughout your life, if only it hadn't distorted the internet and the public psyche beyond recognition along with it :D
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
also amazing to me that some other social media organ has not attempted to do anything as convenient and awesome as facebook events are (even though facebook as a UI is hideous, unnecessarily convoluted, and like bleach to the eyes)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
also amazing to me that some other social media organ has not attempted to do anything as convenient and awesome as facebook events are
the simplest explanation of course is that nothing is trying to be facebook at the moment bc facebook already is and it's foolish to attempt to replace it(?), and instead things are trying to be tiktok
no idea why i'm even making these posts or why i'm thinking about facebook this morning lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
facebook events were already close to going extinct before covid hit, in my group at least
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
i mean that certainly happened to me as well, maybe events as we know them are over
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
i've deliberately 'ruined' my facebook feed, joined bundles of groups like 'i lived in skokie illinois in the 60s and 70s' and at one point the algorithm suggested i add a bunch of russian military academy guys, so i friended them and then got nudged to add some old russian rock and rollers. now my feed is really good TBH
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
lmao that sounds awesome
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
i just get advertisements for complicated shirts
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
when i go to facebook it's like "where the fuck did you go. you turned your back on me. fuck you"
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
Before FB my high school class (1989 FWIW) had various web sites attempting to gather us and organize reunions, etc. Post-FB these felt redundant and lame (even in comparison to FB).
Before FB, Evite was trying to do what FB events does now. But again, once all or most of the participants have FB accounts (of whatever activity level), it just feels like extra work to set up an event in one of those services and then go tell everyone on FB.
Just as it is extra work to have an FB event, and then at the last minute remember that there are those two friends who "don't even have a Facebook account*," and you need to email them separately.
Of course I know the anti-FB arguments. A lot of them seem to focus on the shitty "content" - including all the terrible politics and the malign information landscape and the allergy to facts. But I keep scratching my head because A. Facebook didn't invent any of those things, and B. How TF are you using Facebook for content and news and information? It's terrible at that. There are loads of better ways to get information. C. IME Facebook makes it reasonably easy to avoid shit you don't want to see. Or people you don't want to interact with. D. There's always the old "dude, just scroll" approach to information that you dislike.
* = aka the new "I don't even own a TV"
― trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link