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Am I the only person who is rooting for all social media to die? (Including this one) The only reason I come here is to find interesting articles, but mostly i
by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Am I the only person who is rooting for all social media to die? (Including this one)
The only reason I come here is to find interesting articles, but mostly it's nonsense editorials by extremists, "best practice" by novices, thinly veiled advertisement clickbait by companies, generic news from generic news sites, press releases, Twitter threads... That's most of what is on the front page here.
The comments section is a mess. Experts get downvoted for stating facts, know it alls beating up people for making mistakes, goody-two-shoes lecturing people for not following rules, pedantry galore, the bizarre hangups of straight white libertarian code bros, sycophants, newbies passing off nonsense as sage wisdom, and up/down votes being nearly random and mostly based on emotional response to rhetoric or whatever mirrors their opinions.
The sad truth is that if they tried to fix all these problems, there'd be like 3 comments and 7 new posts a day. To keep something popular and engaging it has to be crap and controversial.
- thealchemistdev 3y ago> the bizarre hangups of straight white libertarian code bros Dang. I was with you all the way until the bigotry. Level up, dude; there are more important things to focus on.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoFound the straight white libertarian code bro!
- losername_ 3y agoI too am tantilised by the idea of social media, and most of the newsmedia, going out like a light overnight. I'd happily see it take businesses whose model rely upon it with them - including this current approach to 'AI' and political campaigning. Would it be the start of the world or the end?