8 pointsby julienreszka8 hours ago5 comments
  • onion2k8 hours ago
    Totally happy with them. I don't use any of them, and that's working really well for me.
  • blinded8 hours ago
    I think unless you were to 100% ban "influencer" crap and ads, which is where you'd have to go to make money or compete, its a waste of time.
  • localdeclan7 hours ago
    If someone can create an algorithm that doesn’t instantly favorite bots that reply on every post then sure. However, yet to see this happen
  • dotcoma8 hours ago
    why? Go for a walk in the woods instead. Spend more time IRL.
    • julienreszka8 hours ago
      social networks are part of real life now
      • dotcoma3 hours ago
        Maybe so, or sadly so, for many people. I still have a LinkedIn account (I login once or twice s week), a Twitter account (once a week) and a bsky account (once a month).

        I can’t believe I used to have Facebook’s app on my phone.

      • ben_w8 hours ago
        The networks themselves always were, well before Zuckerberg, before Babbage and Ada dreamed of a mechanical computer, before Lucy got fossilised.

        The apps are increasingly cringe, and even when someone wins a monoploy so hard their app is defacto mandatory they get rejected and mocked by their own users for presenting content like they're a third wheel on a date who only wants to talk about their hobby and doesn't get a hint.

        Peak actually-being-social is somewhere between IRC and slack, or if you really like long-form, Dreamwidth. If you've got e.g. a thousand followers, it isn't social media any more, it is parasocial media.

        • dotcoma3 hours ago
          YouTube at least were honest. Broadcast yourself, I remember them saying.
  • Finnucane8 hours ago
    Mostly spending time on Mastodon these days, which is only made tolerable by its lack of capabilities.