i can't go to hell - i'm all out of vacation days. i watch space rocks and yell at computers for my day job. probably too old for any of this

 

i think i might be burned out on internet social. it's hard to keep doing it. it's hard to even maintain the amount of attention i'm already giving it

 

i am the cause of most of my own problems

 

furthermore, capitalism must be destroyed

 

birdsona: ?????

 

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adrienne
@adrienne

Not cohost, cohost is still cool! But Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord, all are making really fucking terrible and user-hostile decisions!!!


NireBryce
@NireBryce

the era of free money is over, and all of them are panicking. they see their advertisers, data brokers, and investors as their customers, and forget that their platforms only exist and remain solvent at the whims of their users. They tailor things around the ways to make money, not realizing that advertising etc only works if people are there to lure people to the adverts.

it's a labor issue, but not as we generally think of it. but the production only happens with the users' labor.


Aura
@Aura
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in reply to @adrienne's post:

I very badly want to spin up an IRC server to replace Discord... but I don't think I have it in me to implement my double-tightass-fuck-you-moderation system and I don't see the point otherwise. Sadly! But if Discord keeps on sucking ass the way it has, it might push me over that threshold.

but I thought cohost staff are pedos, or they’re not pedos but they’re too responsive to their user base, and are not to be trusted, or something, I dunno, my attention span is shot

Aside from it being founded by Jack, the Nazi who founded Twitter? Well, the "hangs out with too many overt white supremacists not to be at least a Nazi sympathizer," to be perfectly accurate. I haven't followed it closely enough to know but I find it unsurprising it's making its own bad decisions. Twitter was already the hell site before elon after all.

on the bright side, I've found Cohost and a bunch of other nice and joyful small social media, because of, thanks to, and in spite of Twitter and Reddit crapping themselves

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