Omg😱. Round of applause for Mr. Superior here!!!
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Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, and it will still be brainrot.
My attention span is just fine. I don’t need to see it ruined by short format nonsense with about as much intellectual value as the nutritional value of a McDonald’s cheeseburger.
I never installed TikTok or Snapchat on my phone, not because I had privacy concerns, but because I hate everything about the format.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ll take it. Thank you.
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’ve been avoiding it for years and finally gave in in the moment of weakness. I uninstalled it very soon after because I hated the experience so much and never gave it another thought nor chance. xd
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I did that exact same thing with Twitter about seven years ago and I still don’t understand why someone would use it
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Twitter is trash, on the basis that it tries to create “engagement” as much as possible. Any engagement. So it’ll force a bunch of hot topics and rage fuel down your throat.
However, as an artist, I kind of need a platform like Twitter. Thankfully there are alternatives. I stopped using twitter quite a while ago now.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not the format that is the problem. It’s that old rich people from the broadcast industry decided that since they couldn’t compete with the communications and community industry they’d instead turn the communications platforms into broadcast platforms and tear down all of the community aspects. It happened to all of social media including more long form media as well. So if this project can avoid selling out or being manipulated by spammers into becoming yet another broadcast platform, it might have a shot.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s absolutely the format. The old rich people just have the incentive to drag everyone into it, to make it something to get “hooked” on. But the format itself is already cancerous.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I was there 3000 years ago when snapchat was brand new… those were some good times. Sending snaps to all your friends and staying in touch etc, before all the filters and stories and news etc it was great
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How can you hate something that you’ve never tried?
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
for example by being aware that the format is harmful to psychological health
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Pretty easily: that’s the whole point of the concept of “reputation”
Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 5 months ago
I dont have to be stabbed in the eye with a pen to know I wouldn’t enjoy it.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, exactly. Not everything needs to be experienced. Not experiencing something doesn’t mean being ignorant of its consequences.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cultural osmosis.
Just because I never installed TikTok or Snapchat, doesn’t mean I’ve never seen or heard anything from it. Snapchat used to be big, TikTok is even bigger right now, it’s completely impossible to actually avoid seeing anything from it. And then there’s YouTube with their shorts.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 months ago
To be fair, Snapchat is still better than tiktok, because you can actually communicate with friends. Their spotlight is as much brainrot as it gets
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Vine was before Snapchat
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
The problem with tiktok is not close-source and being centralised. It is being tiktok
toastal@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Same reason it is weird to want a FOSS copy of the UX of Slack/Telegram/Discord in Matrix instead of realizing you don’t need or want the chat history to persist for eternity. Good thing you can choose a different protocol/service in these cases.
Charzard4261@programming.dev 5 months ago
Of all the reasons to hate these messaging apps, it’s because messages last forever? I’d get it if you were concerned that private companies don’t really delete your messages, but you know the average person using these apps actually does want their messages to last?
toastal@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Privacy is one part. The cost of joining & maintaining a server on the network is the other. Many servers have shut their doors due to expensive hosting. If you are lenient on how many messages need to actually be stored on the server for archives, self-hosting is now much more accessible which leads to a healthier, more decentralized network since more nodes can afford to join.
You can still creating your own archives in your clients or on your specific server via s2s communications, but Matrix has this as a network requirement for eventual consistency.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Drag wants the chat history to persist for eternity. Just two weeks ago, drag pulled up a 3 year old quote from one of drag’s friends to make a point in a discussion.
toastal@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Drag can archive it locally just fine. Is it worth storing hundreds of thousands of messages & attachments that price out self-hosting & low-spec hosters & medium-sized communities on a budget? These storage costs add up quickly & without lots of nodes, the network is no longer federated but held by a few mega hosts like Matrix.org & a sprinkling of single-user hosts. I have seen many servers shut down due to costs. This tradeoff just isn’t worth it for a triving, decentralized platform (Mastodon suffers similar duplication issues).