mxleader on 20/8/2023 at 23:46
Quote Posted by WEI
It's so stupid it's impressive is what I mean. I am amazed each freaking time even though I am thinking "but of course he'd do that !", it gets me speechless.. It's as if each time you discover a whole new level of stupidity.
And yeah, I wasn't only speaking about Musk, he is not alone in this category for sure, but damn if he isn't one fine specimen.
You're right for sure. Elon does do and say some really stupid things. Even if you align with his politics in any way you'd have to be scratching your head at some of his business moves and social media comments. Whenever I hear him talking in interviews I feel like I'm watching a snake oil salesman or a sociopath. Maybe even a psychopath.
Nameless Voice on 20/8/2023 at 23:50
Quote Posted by mxleader
Made sense to me at the time. I'm pretty sure I was reading tweets about what people were eating for lunch. But maybe I was reading tweets from some cooking show star. Difficult to remember.
It's hard to keep up with what platform does what these days. I'm one the 'old' people that still use Facebook the youngin's talk about on TikTok.
I think I've talked about this before, but one of the reasons I never really had much of a problem with Twitter as a platform (before Musk) was that everything there is designed to be public - it's all like posting to a blog or even to a forum - rather than semi-private, which Facebook implies by limiting your visibility to friends.
I really don't trust the social media platforms with lots of private data, but that's not an issue when you're posting publicly.
The other reason is that you can view Twitter feeds chronologically - just showing what all the people you follow have posted, in order, with no algorithm picking and choosing what you see.
I don't trust algorithms, especially when they are provided by huge corporations with their own agenda (and we've seen
a lot of dodgy stuff happening on Facebook - e.g. the Cambridge Analytica scandal - so that's a very justified distrust.)
Of course, Twitter does still have an algorithm, and it's enabled by default, so being able to turn it off just means that
I will see what I want to see, not that it won't promote or suppress posts to push some agenda or other for the users who don't know enough to switch to chronological view.
Mastodon would be even better for the above. It doesn't even
have an algorithm, it only supports chronological, plus everything is open source so you could see exactly what it's doing if you wanted to. Shame few noteworthy people actually use it yet (probably because of the aforementioned UX being bad, especially with regards to anything that crosses between different servers.)
mxleader on 21/8/2023 at 04:31
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I think I've talked about this before, but one of the reasons I never really had much of a problem with Twitter as a platform (before Musk) was that everything there is designed to be public - it's all like posting to a blog or even to a forum - rather than semi-private, which Facebook implies by limiting your visibility to friends.
I really don't trust the social media platforms with lots of private data, but that's not an issue when you're posting publicly.
The other reason is that you can view Twitter feeds chronologically - just showing what all the people you follow have posted, in order, with no algorithm picking and choosing what you see.
I don't trust algorithms, especially when they are provided by huge corporations with their own agenda (and we've seen
a lot of dodgy stuff happening on Facebook - e.g. the Cambridge Analytica scandal - so that's a very justified distrust.)
Of course, Twitter does still have an algorithm, and it's enabled by default, so being able to turn it off just means that
I will see what I want to see, not that it won't promote or suppress posts to push some agenda or other for the users who don't know enough to switch to chronological view.
Mastodon would be even better for the above. It doesn't even
have an algorithm, it only supports chronological, plus everything is open source so you could see exactly what it's doing if you wanted to. Shame few noteworthy people actually use it yet (probably because of the aforementioned UX being bad, especially with regards to anything that crosses between different servers.)
This forum is semi-private if you take into account everyone's nicknames. You only have to share other info if you want. Most of this forum is public except for the Member's Chat. Of course almost nobody uses that chat area. I've always had a mistrust of this forum as I think people are stealing my freely given ideas.
I do like the idea of social media being viewable in chronological order. Maybe that's why I keep coming back here year after year. Social media platforms that bounce around based on whatever they are trying to market to you are very difficult to follow when you see stuff your friends and family posted weeks ago after stuff they posted today. TikTok algorithms seem like they are based on how ever someone fixed an issue while a supervisor is standing over them and yelling like a drill sergeant. Then the process gets repeated over and over until it's one giant mess. I should sign up for a Twitter account just for the entertainment value.
Nameless Voice on 21/8/2023 at 10:04
Oh yeah, I forgot that Facebook have a real-names-only policy. Don't think any of the other social media platforms have that?
mxleader on 21/8/2023 at 12:30
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Oh yeah, I forgot that Facebook have a real-names-only policy. Don't think any of the other social media platforms have that?
Facebook does have that policy but they have a tough time enforcing it. I have several troll friends with completely made up names on FB. And lately FB seems to be having difficulty controlling all the fake scam accounts. Last week I added some items to Facebook marketplace and I was reporting at least two out of three scam accounts. Security seems to be a real problem on social media sites when they start to lose users and advertising dollars. TikTok takes the opposite approach with security by having crappy account security from the beginning and making it worse the more successful they become. I've started using Instagram more and more even though I'm not that comfortable with how it functions and I'm struggling to navigate it and its algorithms. I'm not that excited about using Instagram but so many people I know have pretty much ditched FB and other apps and are solely using IG. I'm waiting for the day when Tom calls back all his friends to Myspace and we can all go back to being frustrated as our systems crash due to the excessive coding allowed on that platform.
SD on 21/8/2023 at 23:15
My sister's pet rabbits had Facebook accounts, which she used to boost her in various online games. I suppose they were technically real names, but they were certainly below the minimum age requirement.
mxleader on 21/8/2023 at 23:19
Quote Posted by SD
My sister's pet rabbits had Facebook accounts, which she used to boost her in various online games. I suppose they were technically real names, but they were certainly below the minimum age requirement.
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about all the pets that have their own Facebook accounts. :laff:
R Soul on 22/8/2023 at 20:51
I used their page feature, meant for businesses, to set one up for my dog.
mxleader on 22/8/2023 at 21:49
Quote Posted by R Soul
I used their page feature, meant for businesses, to set one up for my dog.
That's cool, and it's easier to manage than setting up a whole new FB account. I used to have two pages: one for a cycling blog and one for a museum I volunteered for. Now I use IG for the blog and have a group for the museum (That's defunct now). I have a couple of friends that have my phone number but never text or call but they light up my DM's on TikTok, IG and FB all the time. I don't really like Skype but I use that for work related stuff when I have to. For video games it's TTLG and Discord and that's pretty much it.