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Modern social media makes conversations simply impossible, comfortable or not. Can't have a conversation if it's not even guaranteed your contributions will be seen by anybody, thanks to an algorithm. And if everything is just ephemeral. The death of simple chronologically ordered threaded content was the death of social media as a means of useful communication.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Ahh, I love it when a "visionary in real estate" gets busted as a scammer and a AirBnB slumlord: quote:If Goel is convicted, the government could force him to forfeit all of the properties, according to the indictment. Oh my God please. What would happen in that case, anyway? Would they get put up for auction by the government?
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Jan 2, 2024 22:50
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Jan 2, 2024 22:55
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I'm part of somethingawful forums in 2024 because it was uncool back in the day and is uncool now, for similar but different reasons
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Jan 2, 2024 23:07
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I love my dead, gay, uncool forums.
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steinrokkan posted:Modern social media makes conversations simply impossible, comfortable or not. Can't have a conversation if it's not even guaranteed your contributions will be seen by anybody, thanks to an algorithm. And if everything is just ephemeral. The death of simple chronologically ordered threaded content was the death of social media as a means of useful communication. That I agree credburn posted:I'm part of somethingawful forums in 2024 because it was uncool back in the day and is uncool now, for similar but different reasons I confess I used to believe it was very cool, back in the day
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Jan 2, 2024 23:27
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steinrokkan posted:Modern social media makes conversations simply impossible, comfortable or not. Can't have a conversation if it's not even guaranteed your contributions will be seen by anybody, thanks to an algorithm. And if everything is just ephemeral. The death of simple chronologically ordered threaded content was the death of social media as a means of useful communication. This Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I love my dead, gay, uncool forums. And this too
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Jan 2, 2024 23:28
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Elias_Maluco posted:I confess I used to believe it was very cool, back in the day You were deeply uncool though so your concept of what cool was did not conform to cool in reality.
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Jan 2, 2024 23:49
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Inceltown posted:You were deeply uncool though so your concept of what cool was did not conform to cool in reality. were seems like a misleading qualifier
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Jan 3, 2024 00:04
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Now that's what I call impaled gonads
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Jan 3, 2024 00:30
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Seems like the wrong kind of fence to build around a skatepark.
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Jan 3, 2024 01:44
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Mister Speaker posted:Seems like the wrong kind of fence to build around a skatepark. But perfect for those birds that leave their prey on spikes, a skater would be a pretty good get
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Jan 3, 2024 02:32
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GoutPatrol posted:But perfect for those birds that leave their prey on spikes, a skater would be a pretty good get Tony Shrike's Pro Impaler
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Jan 3, 2024 02:36
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Tree Bucket posted:Tony Shrike's Pro Impaler lol
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steinrokkan posted:Modern social media makes conversations simply impossible, comfortable or not. Can't have a conversation if it's not even guaranteed your contributions will be seen by anybody, thanks to an algorithm. And if everything is just ephemeral. The death of simple chronologically ordered threaded content was the death of social media as a means of useful communication. Absolutely this. The major social media outlets are advertising cesspools full of scams and dropshipping ads and self-absorbed twits gaming algorithms to maximize how much attention they get and how much money they can make doing it, as well as soulless viral media mills that steal and repost content for the same above reason. They are poorly moderated and possibly the worst way to actually be social, and it's drat near impossible to carry a coherent conversation in them because the flow inevitably ends up fractured by likes/upvotes weighting what you see first, or algorithms just throwing things at you any which way it wants rather than in a logical chronological order. In contrast, forums and chat clients like irc or discord are much easier to hold a conversation in, much more likely to be full of people united by some topic or another, and much easier to moderate, comparatively so. I've had so many more meaningful and informative conversations on forums and irc/discord than I will ever have on Instagram or Twitter. Just because forums are place to be social, does not make them the same as what most people refer to as "social media".
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Jan 3, 2024 03:03
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None of that discounts that it's social media.
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Tree Bucket posted:Tony Shrike's Pro Impaler I always played as Ducky Lasek
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Jan 3, 2024 03:09
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iwentdoodie posted:None of that discounts that it's social media. I hear you and get what you're saying, but I can pretty confidently say that there's a clear difference in scope and use case between large corporate social media sites and forums/chat clients, enough to distinguish them as separate categories imo. If we're splitting hairs, even snail mail is social media insofar that one can use it as a medium for social interaction, but no one talking about social media is referring to that. :P
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Jan 3, 2024 03:14
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Writing on toilet walls is social media
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Jan 3, 2024 03:18
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brb gonna send shitposts via carrier pigeon
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Inceltown posted:Writing on toilet walls is social media This is because nothing funny or valued has ever been written on them
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Soul Dentist posted:This is because nothing funny or valued has ever been written on them Toilet graffiti is the highest form of discourse.
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air is social media because it's a medium through which i use "sound" to transmit messages to my social group but seriously, "social media" doesn't just mean "internet media that is social"; it has never meant that. Message boards and chat clients predate the term "social media," which was a term created for the likes of MySpace and Facebook to distinguish them from other forms of online communication. This dead gay forum is not "social media." I will die on this hill too.
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Jan 3, 2024 03:31
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Soul Dentist posted:This is because nothing funny or valued has ever been written on them  Someone wrote SHITBARF above the urinal and for a moment I forgot I was using a disgusting bar bathroom.
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Jan 3, 2024 03:33
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Soul Dentist posted:This is because nothing funny or valued has ever been written on them Go home Dad, you're drunk.
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Jan 3, 2024 03:41
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Inceltown posted:Writing on toilet walls is social media OG shitposting
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Atticus_1354 posted:Toilet graffiti is the highest form of discourse. 
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Captain Hygiene posted:OG shitposting Shitposting is so old that I suspect it's deeply wired into the human consciousness. See e.g. Pompeiian graffiti. My fave: "Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog". ... and, of course, the meta-shitpost: "O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in ruin."
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Chicken Butt posted:Shitposting is so old that I suspect it's deeply wired into the human consciousness. See e.g. Pompeiian graffiti. My fave: "Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog". I like to think that some long-dead Roman felt the ground shake, saw the black plume exploding upwards on the horizon, saw the ash cloud roaring down the street engulfing human after screaming human; and then he grit his teeth and reached for his shitpostin' paint. With only a few moments left, he knew what had to be done.
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Jan 3, 2024 05:04
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Something Awful is social media in the same way that Arby’s is an NGO.
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Toilet stall graffiti I saw the other day:
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Jan 3, 2024 05:38
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That picture reminds me of the fillmore! Episode about stainless
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iwentdoodie posted:None of that discounts that it's social media. Your right, but only because old style forums were so irrelevant when that term came around no one thought to make a different term to differentiate them. When you say "social media" no one thinks of forums. Hell no one thinks about forums really anymore at all.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The bbcode separates them automatically: I blame tiktok, for existing.
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freeedr posted:I have one at home but I don’t really use it for anything except the rare occasion when I need to sign up for something or pay something online and then off it goes again. I was being facetious about desktops but actually at home I don’t use computers at all except answering my smartphone I guess Opposite for me, I use the phone for bills but the desktop for everything else.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Toilet stall graffiti I saw the other day: it's true
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Tired of wokeness in my toilets.
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Tiktok sucks but it brought gameplay videos of some amazing games into my life that crack me the gently caress up, so at best I'm ambivalent to if it needs to die in a grease fire.
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Social media as a term was invented to describe an algorithm-driven alternative to "traditional" media such as newspapers or television, the point being that you could monetize human sociality itself to drive individually targeted advertising that was impossible to achieve with focus groups etc. The term has at no point referred to "a media that is social" like ye olde forums or chatrooms, it's all about the ads.
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Careful with that, I'm pretty sure MySpace was firmly social media, but didn't that have any 'algorithms' of the kind we refer to? drat, does anyone have a screenshot of their myspace page that they'd like to share? I'd like to think it'd be 100% thread content appropriate all these years later.
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