🚀 Jason Lex
What's the thing you hate most about mainstream social media?
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🏎️ Fast
too many external articles. not enough original thoughts.
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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.
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📉 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"
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🎯 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).
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👍 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.
4y, 18w
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Derrick
coordinated censorship, propaganda & astroturfing by state funded/mafia cartels
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🌊 Zero Two
content is always hit or miss
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Niccolo Machiavelli
I don't really "hate" I find amusing to observer co-dependent relationships between sociopath narcissists and their enablers
4y, 18w
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🔮 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.
4y, 18w
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Xy
compared to 90's and early 00's internet, it feels impossible to create meaningful interactions with strangers
4y, 18w
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Cole Hudson
Yet this site seems like a good counter-example, there's hope yet!
4y, 18w
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😾 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?
4y, 18w
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🌊 Zero Two
this site does not make it easier for me to interact with u, just less clutter in the way.
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