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by woweoe 4y ago
It might be a good thing that Australia actually has a competitor in the field which is otherwise dominated by US tech giants. Though one has to ask why Murdoch gave up Sky and 20th Century.
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by woweoe 4y ago
In many cultures and especially if you live in a big city, the idea of being able to get around without a car is considered positive. Vegetarianism is massive in India (as are railways) and significant percentages in Europe too. The rest is
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by woweoe 4y ago
Google Circles was a good concept but I presume poorly implemented. Facebook fails outside the school/university environment because most people do not want their private social lives to be public, and the start of Facebook was limited
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by woweoe 4y ago
Vine was forced to intergrade into Twitter.
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by woweoe 4y ago
HN is probably the closest to what the old pre-reddit forum culture was like, but obviously structured in the horrible reddit manner. Reddit is probably an unsocial media.
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by woweoe 4y ago
It's better than what Instagram does, and way better than what Twitter does, but it may also be a sign of the biases and politics engineered into algorithms in Instagram and Twitter.
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by woweoe 4y ago
Reddit has destroyed the forum culture that basically owned this concept. The internet was a far less politized place before Reddit came along, and you could have a conversation on a forum between wildly different political opponents withou
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by woweoe 4y ago
LinkenIn is probably a long term social network because a lot of people want to be able to maintain a "professional side" to them in public, but want to be able to keep the personal lives private. Facebook was aimed at college stu
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by woweoe 4y ago
Facebook fails with the segregation of social groups most humans have. In some countries a person does not make true friends at work, and friends are a personal casual thing. For some cultures a friend can be made in a few days, in other cu
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by woweoe 4y ago
Reddit is horrific because the moderation on the website is so heavily biased towards the current mantra of the US Democrats, regardless of topic and country involved. Why so many of the public ditched forums, where replying to an older com
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by woweoe 4y ago
Twitter is still the only major social media network where alternative views may be tolerated, and hence Musk was trying to buy it. Reddit is probably a better fit for your complaint.
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by woweoe 4y ago
I would say that the golden years ended by 2012 (depending on age of course). Facebook was essentially a way to connect to people outside your inner circle, and before 2012 it was a way for younger people to connect to other younger people
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by woweoe 4y ago
Youtube is also a website first, whereas TikTok is an app first. Apps on mobile are usually harder to leave.
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by woweoe 4y ago
Reddit is the worst of all the social media considering how toxic the moderation is. You just leave the site full of anger and a desire to shout at all the misinformed on that site. TikTok is similar to TV. People would sit around the TV fo
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by woweoe 4y ago
Reddit is already a cesspool for many issues including politics, news and race/culture based questions.
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by woweoe 4y ago
Which is why the "America might be a different case" was added. I suspect that the casteism was allowed to flourish among some Indian Americans, whereas in India the casteism was actively dismantled (and to how the IT industry is
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by woweoe 4y ago
Yes and no. Casteism is virtually a non-existent concept among the Indian diaspora in the West, who are mostly in the second generation or further, though the US is possibly an exception. If you asked an Indian person in Australia about cas
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by woweoe 4y ago
Part of it is to do with emigration from India to the US (where money talks) during the communist Cold War era when there was discrimination against upper castes in India (and note that an upper caste person may not have much money). In the
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by woweoe 4y ago
If someone wants some more background information. A few decades ago during the Cold War, there were several large scale anti-caste movements, and this caused a lot of the moneyed upper caste (note that many of the upper caste are poor) to
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by woweoe 4y ago
India does not have a single party majority either but an alliance majority
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by woweoe 4y ago
The agreement between the UK and EU ran to 1250 pages in English alone.
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by woweoe 4y ago
This might be a very non American problem, but people forget that there are social pressures to follow when you are middle class that cost more money.
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by woweoe 4y ago
This is one of those points of controversy that foreigners in Japan bring up. But for me the idea of making friends at work seemed unusual and I felt that the Japanese way of doing things was correct, and it come to me that the Japanese exp
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by woweoe 4y ago
He is right in terms of major cities in Europe. I grew up in a small-mid sized town and I still get surprised when I meet someone I know, let alone cities the size of Atlanta.
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by woweoe 4y ago
I guess there is going to be a number of people whose parents were basically abusive.
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by woweoe 4y ago
I also would have preferred to spend more time with my friends than with my parents. Due to conflict with my parents I have no real desire to talk more to them nowadays either. I think one of the reasons is because children are generally bu
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by woweoe 4y ago
I presume that you are an American. In many cultures the idea of making frie. In many cultures the idea of making friends at work is frowned upon because
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by woweoe 4y ago
Having a majority in parliament is the normal way of doing things
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by woweoe 4y ago
I think caravan might be extremely left wing though.
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by woweoe 4y ago
In my opinion the pandemic era saw a significant increase in employee headcount, and now we are seeing a "correction" of the employee headcount. But I think the bigger point is that venture capital funding is really drying up and

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