Re:I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
by silveroriole on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @03:13AM
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“Go to Tumblr, Facebook groups, Instagram... Reddit... 4chan” All of those have one thing in common to me, which is that they’re not meant for holding conversations on. Facebook pretends to be but if you post more than a couple of replies they get collapsed up. All those sites are “here’s a picture/video, make a kneejerk response, move on.” Ok sure that’s optimised for timewasting - I just want to see content, I don’t want to have to dig through text to get it - but it’s boring, non-interactive, repetitive timewasting. I think we lost some magic when you stopped being forced to deal with individuals in chatrooms/forums/their own personal sites in order to see stuff, even though it was also really inconvenient.
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Re:I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
by viridian on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:46AM
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4chan is nothing but conversations. They can span 7 minutes or 7 months depending on the board and the topic, but they otherwise work exactly like forums where the order is determined by post bumping. Try hanging out around a slower board like /lit/ and you'll notice they are essentially forums.
Re:I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
by occamsrazorwit on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:11PM
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"but if you post more than a couple of replies they get collapsed up"
Forums do the same thing, just with pagination instead of collapsing. Newcomers to a thread or FB post aren't going to read through the last 40 pages of comments, but the option to do so is still available.