🚀 Jason Lex
What's the thing you hate most about mainstream social media?
Minh Do
The promise of communication that doesn't result in any real communication. It's empty. A skeuomorphic version of talking isn't talking.
📉 Bill
Everyone is trying to *out - do* everyone else. It's all a game of "how much can i make everyone else jealous of me"
🎯 Gallium Oxide
The 7 megabytes of Javascript and 7 seconds it takes to load a page. I genuinely wonder what it's doing, considering how shit the underlying algorithms really are (both for serving relevant ads and surfacing interesting content).
👍 Lorin H.
a billion irrelevant ads - I let everyone track me specifically to get proper targeting and I still repeatedly get kickstarter scams and irrelevant stuff. It's as if advertisers don't care how to target properly.
😾 Oskar
I am still amazed how shitty amazon books recommendation are for me, even with all of their tracking, having my physical orders and wishlist. Discovery mechanism simply doesn't exist and it just offers whatever it thinks will sell.
Derrick
coordinated censorship, propaganda & astroturfing by state funded/mafia cartels
🌊 Zero Two
content is always hit or miss
Niccolo Machiavelli
I don't really "hate" I find amusing to observer co-dependent relationships between sociopath narcissists and their enablers
🔮 Liv
It dangles the promise of connecting with other people and ruins any chance of that happening by making both parties do it on a global stage.
Xy
compared to 90's and early 00's internet, it feels impossible to create meaningful interactions with strangers
Cole Hudson
Yet this site seems like a good counter-example, there's hope yet!
😾 Oskar
Pfff, old farts. Kids make friends today all the time. Look at their content creation collaboration frequency on youtube or this chinese youtube app. Probably 3/4 of ppl here are ~30, which is, like, retirement age?
🌊 Zero Two
this site does not make it easier for me to interact with u, just less clutter in the way.