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Does anybody else at this point want to mostly stop posting on async text-based services anyways? Honestly, I'd rather just hang out on Google Meet all day and

Does anybody else at this point want to mostly stop posting on async text-based services anyways? Honestly, I'd rather just hang out on Google Meet all day and chill with a handful of besties. We can still all share our thoughts and other things we find interesting on the web, but if we're gonna all be terminally online, we might as well at least bring as much of the human experience back into it as we can.

bschmidt1 2y ago
> if we're gonna all be terminally online, we might as well at least bring as much of the human experience back into it as we can So Myspace, Foursquare? (Not being witty, I loved that era)
- qntmfred 2y ago
  I mostly mean talking to each other to our faces with our voices. But I recognize the sentiment you're referring to. I think the stagnation of social media in the last 10 years, combined with the clear societal harms it has caused in some cases, has given many of us who have been around the block a few times reason to reflect on some of the ancient success stories and even yearn for their lost appeals.
brianpan 2y ago
Is it the async part that's a problem? Or is it that chilling with besties is all we ever really wanted? I was pretty happy with Facebook in 2007 when it was posting pictures and making stupid jokes with my actual friends (not the whole world and whatever is trending).
- qntmfred 2y ago
  Async has a lot of benefits, but I think if 10x as much of the content we engage with asynchronously was originally live interaction between people we have a personal bond with (or at least can recognize the humanity in from a distance), we would notice a positive difference and want the internet to be more like that.
raxxorraxor 2y ago
I specifically use social media to not engage the same people. With friends we often still use a mumble server or the next random chat app for the extended circle. But I do like to read other peoples perspective. Naturally I prefer platforms like HN or reddit that are more orientated around topics instead of people. I don't care for e-celebs at all and as such platforms like bluesky or Twitter are often too boring. Instagram is too stupid for me and I would suggest this is a form of pathological absence of any intelligence. There is some very good art though and some good ideas and this is generalizing, but the signal/noise ratio makes you crazy. Everything is filled with some form of very radiant moron aura. Sometimes I believe it is deliberate. I think Threads was a conspiracy by Facebook to make Insta less stupid and expand the demographic. But it isn't open enough and anonymous usage isn't possible. In the current form and with the dynamics around Twitter, I think Bluesky draws in quite a few insufferable people. Probably those that hate Musk the most and I am wary of them as I was with those that wanted to make him king of the universe in times past.

bschmidt1 2y ago

> if we're gonna all be terminally online, we might as well at least bring as much of the human experience back into it as we can So Myspace, Foursquare? (Not being witty, I loved that era)

qntmfred 2y ago
I mostly mean talking to each other to our faces with our voices. But I recognize the sentiment you're referring to. I think the stagnation of social media in the last 10 years, combined with the clear societal harms it has caused in some cases, has given many of us who have been around the block a few times reason to reflect on some of the ancient success stories and even yearn for their lost appeals.

brianpan 2y ago

Is it the async part that's a problem? Or is it that chilling with besties is all we ever really wanted? I was pretty happy with Facebook in 2007 when it was posting pictures and making stupid jokes with my actual friends (not the whole world and whatever is trending).

qntmfred 2y ago
Async has a lot of benefits, but I think if 10x as much of the content we engage with asynchronously was originally live interaction between people we have a personal bond with (or at least can recognize the humanity in from a distance), we would notice a positive difference and want the internet to be more like that.

raxxorraxor 2y ago

I specifically use social media to not engage the same people. With friends we often still use a mumble server or the next random chat app for the extended circle. But I do like to read other peoples perspective. Naturally I prefer platforms like HN or reddit that are more orientated around topics instead of people. I don't care for e-celebs at all and as such platforms like bluesky or Twitter are often too boring. Instagram is too stupid for me and I would suggest this is a form of pathological absence of any intelligence. There is some very good art though and some good ideas and this is generalizing, but the signal/noise ratio makes you crazy. Everything is filled with some form of very radiant moron aura. Sometimes I believe it is deliberate. I think Threads was a conspiracy by Facebook to make Insta less stupid and expand the demographic. But it isn't open enough and anonymous usage isn't possible. In the current form and with the dynamics around Twitter, I think Bluesky draws in quite a few insufferable people. Probably those that hate Musk the most and I am wary of them as I was with those that wanted to make him king of the universe in times past.