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> I feel like we must be using different internets. I can't shake off the thought that this statement might be more truthful than it deserves to be. Some of so

> I feel like we must be using different internets. I can't shake off the thought that this statement might be more truthful than it deserves to be. Some of social media accounts are closer to what you have described, some are more like what I have. The Dead Internet Syndrome must be not spreading uniformly, but there must be significant disparity across fields and bubbles, deepening divides between common folks without clean freshwater supply and those privileged that has access to spam-immune input source. My Twitter timeline is... not great, not terrible. Reddit is out of question.

Groxx 2y ago
There are pockets of Internet that are still great, definitely. But "likes and retweets" are long-time major features of basically all of the absolute biggest social sites in the world, and they're also some of the most awful ones that people keep looking for ways to leave. So no, I don't think it's particularly outdated. Predictive, if anything.
rcpt 2y ago
Reddit you have control over your timeline. The comments can be good to. Just stick to your interests. Twitter turned into garbage when Elon decided to make it pay-to-play. Giving Blue Checks ranking boosts and extra power when they block others ruined every reply section. On any even vaguely political tweet you now have to scroll forever through a bunch of illustrated profile pics hurling insults before you can get to a real discussion.
- brokenmachine 2y ago
  >Twitter turned into garbage when Elon decided to make it pay-to-play. Twitter has been garbage for a long time before that.
- numpad0 2y ago
  No. Reddit has zero manipulation resistance. Votes aren't working, and its users are too prone to manipulations too. Tangentially and thankfully, current Internet manipulation frameworks appear to have been built for Reddit and its users; it sticks out elsewhere, and those malicious users at individual levels are easy to bump over edge for anyone with experience in other Internet communities. Twitter is o-kay. They seem to have largely gave up investments on African-Indian spammer program and it's on its way out. Gratification mechanisms outside of the feedback loop such as paid boosts and reward cash are clearly detrimental to creator performance, so they were destined to be filtered out. Pushing blue check contents is like pushing AI clips in style of Tarkovsky to TikTok junkies, it never works. I think Twitter users by this point as a collective consciousness must have learned that weaponizing Bluesky/Mastodon transition to trivialize corporate influence is a viable short term strategy, considering how slow and tame changes on the platform has lately been. Twitter had always had such mutually toxic and manipulative relationship between the company and its users.

Groxx 2y ago

There are pockets of Internet that are still great, definitely. But "likes and retweets" are long-time major features of basically all of the absolute biggest social sites in the world, and they're also some of the most awful ones that people keep looking for ways to leave. So no, I don't think it's particularly outdated. Predictive, if anything.

rcpt 2y ago

Reddit you have control over your timeline. The comments can be good to. Just stick to your interests. Twitter turned into garbage when Elon decided to make it pay-to-play. Giving Blue Checks ranking boosts and extra power when they block others ruined every reply section. On any even vaguely political tweet you now have to scroll forever through a bunch of illustrated profile pics hurling insults before you can get to a real discussion.

brokenmachine 2y ago
>Twitter turned into garbage when Elon decided to make it pay-to-play. Twitter has been garbage for a long time before that.
numpad0 2y ago
No. Reddit has zero manipulation resistance. Votes aren't working, and its users are too prone to manipulations too. Tangentially and thankfully, current Internet manipulation frameworks appear to have been built for Reddit and its users; it sticks out elsewhere, and those malicious users at individual levels are easy to bump over edge for anyone with experience in other Internet communities. Twitter is o-kay. They seem to have largely gave up investments on African-Indian spammer program and it's on its way out. Gratification mechanisms outside of the feedback loop such as paid boosts and reward cash are clearly detrimental to creator performance, so they were destined to be filtered out. Pushing blue check contents is like pushing AI clips in style of Tarkovsky to TikTok junkies, it never works. I think Twitter users by this point as a collective consciousness must have learned that weaponizing Bluesky/Mastodon transition to trivialize corporate influence is a viable short term strategy, considering how slow and tame changes on the platform has lately been. Twitter had always had such mutually toxic and manipulative relationship between the company and its users.