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Regarding Insta, it’s interesting how some platforms are inherently more peaceful. The lack of links? Tiny, almost irrelevant image descriptions? Barely a comm

Regarding Insta, it’s interesting how some platforms are inherently more peaceful. The lack of links? Tiny, almost irrelevant image descriptions? Barely a commenting system to speak of? Just vanity and pretty people. It’s quite nice. And makes for a good case study.

taurath 7y ago
Now if we could do that for actual togetherness, that’s be the real trick, especially given that’s the promise of social media in the first place.
mtgx 7y ago
A vanity place with pretty people pushing random products in their feeds. How is that "nice"?
- gherkinnn 7y ago
  Not quite as poisonous as other places. And some people actually post nice stuff. It’s what you make of it and harder to go to shit.
  - edoceo 7y ago
    I remember when folk said that about FB vs the toxic platforms of those days
    - gherkinnn 7y ago
      Maybe a descent in to darkness is inevitable. We’ll see. In the mean time, let’s also take a look at the dynamics of group chats. Their whitelist and closed off nature seems to work very well indeed. A new set of customs and etiquette is being developed regarding who is invited, how does one exit such a group with grace, how do you remove someone? Maybe just make a new one without the annoying party?
privateSFacct 7y ago
My own view - the lack of reposts. I think reposts based on outrage probably do better then other reposts, so on facebook you can get lots of these - they are not even your friends words or research. What's really funny is when you have friends on facebook in different sides of things. I live in a very liberal area, I used to work in a very conservative area - literally BOTH sides are constantly outraged at the other. Most recently - left friends are saying XXX. On the right it just as heated and bitter the other way YYY. Everyone in their little bubble. (To reduce the noise I'm leaving out the topics of the day).

taurath 7y ago

Now if we could do that for actual togetherness, that’s be the real trick, especially given that’s the promise of social media in the first place.

mtgx 7y ago

A vanity place with pretty people pushing random products in their feeds. How is that "nice"?

gherkinnn 7y ago
Not quite as poisonous as other places. And some people actually post nice stuff. It’s what you make of it and harder to go to shit.
- edoceo 7y ago
  I remember when folk said that about FB vs the toxic platforms of those days
  - gherkinnn 7y ago
    Maybe a descent in to darkness is inevitable. We’ll see. In the mean time, let’s also take a look at the dynamics of group chats. Their whitelist and closed off nature seems to work very well indeed. A new set of customs and etiquette is being developed regarding who is invited, how does one exit such a group with grace, how do you remove someone? Maybe just make a new one without the annoying party?

privateSFacct 7y ago

My own view - the lack of reposts. I think reposts based on outrage probably do better then other reposts, so on facebook you can get lots of these - they are not even your friends words or research. What's really funny is when you have friends on facebook in different sides of things. I live in a very liberal area, I used to work in a very conservative area - literally BOTH sides are constantly outraged at the other. Most recently - left friends are saying XXX. On the right it just as heated and bitter the other way YYY. Everyone in their little bubble. (To reduce the noise I'm leaving out the topics of the day).