Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by MiddleEndian on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:12PM
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To me, this is what makes Twitter (and Instagram and anything else aimed at talking to the public) mostly useless. I don't want to hear about the day-to-day lives of Twitter randos at all or follow celebrity gossip. On Facebook, I talk to and organize events with my friends and family. My conversations are continuous across devices, and they are not mobile-first like texting or whatsapp or snapchat or some of the new privacy-oriented platforms. I'm not a huge user of the newsfeed but I just unfollow anyone who posts irritating content. Back when they had auto-playing videos I unfollowed anyone who posted a video. Some of my friends apparently unfollowed me when I had a scary profile picture lol. But for the core usecase it still worked fine, we were still able to talk and organize events.
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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by JohnBooty on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:42PM
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To me, this is what makes Twitter (and Instagram
and anything else aimed at talking to the public)
mostly useless. I don't want to hear about the
day-to-day lives of Twitter randos at all or
follow celebrity gossip.
I enjoy Twitter a lot and my feed is 0% randos and celebrities.It's about 50% friends I know personally and 50%... well, not "celebrities" but like... local personalities, independent musicians, leaders of open source projects, etc. The ones I follow are actually very responsive to replies which is very very cool and useful to me.
I'm not sure where else I could easily and enjoyably aggregate that stuff.
Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by MiddleEndian on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:34AM
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I guess I just don't have a particular desire for that to be integrated into the same system I use to talk to my friends. To me FB is just a replacement for AIM with some conveniences like being able to look people up by name. If I want aggregated tech news I just come here, if I want to know what someone specific like Stallman is up to, I'll go to his site or send him an email.
Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
by AzzieElbab on Sunday October 10, 2021 @08:52PM
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I don’t even use the feed. Just private lists, and I avoid adding journalists.