i dislike subtweets because I'm too clueless to figure out who we're talking shit about
the thing about subtweets is that I WILL drop everything to figure out what the hell everyone's talking about
oh god yes
particularly if it's like someone I have absolutely no connection to
gotta go through all of their tweets, replies, mentions to figure out that it's like
nate silver or something
just someone I could possibly not give less of a shit about, but until I figure out it's them they're the most important controversial figure in the universe
"Dunking and parasocial relationships are toxic and psychologically damaging and a danger to democracy so whatever replaces Twitter should not have those things".
"But we want those things".
Is that correct so far?
What's your excuse?
I'm humans are wired to want many things that are not healthy for them in the long term.
People already screenshot tweets and then post those screenshots for dunking. If anything, quote retweeting makes that shit easier to deal with by letting me block whoever the dunce being dunked on is so I don't have to see all that shit
+2
Mercutio87So build that wall and build it strong causeWe'll be there before too longRegistered Userregular
It was the best place to post, it was the worst place to post
+17
OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
I don't mean to say that bullying via quote RTs isn't a problem, or that amplifying hate speech to "dunk" on it isn't a problem, but I don't think Mastodon effectively solves those problems, and I don't think it mitigates them all that much, either.
+1
OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
Bullying is an inevitability on any really public social communication, which is why most effective conflict resolution takes place in private
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
the thing about discord is it sucks and it is not a better alternative for anything other than as a chatroom app
Discord is a more user friendly IRC and I am baffled at folks who suggest it’s a viable Twitter alternative
They’re two entirely different kinds of thing! It’s like if when AIM went down you told its users to switch to twitter as a replacement. They just fulfill entirely different styles of communication.
+37
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Elon showing his ultra thin skin by randomly calling Trent Reznor names.
Maybe we can we trick him into shit-talking Taylor Swift and K-Pop and Furries and then just let nature take its course as he's torn to shreds and then the shreds are incinerated
Elon showing his ultra thin skin by randomly calling Trent Reznor names.
Maybe we can we trick him into shit-talking Taylor Swift and K-Pop and Furries and then just let nature take its course as he's torn to shreds and then the shreds are incinerated
Words cannot express how amazing that would be to witness
as it is written, let it be done
+3
MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Cyberbullying people in a position of power has proven time and again to be a force for good
i can go on twitter and see what cool artists are drawing and talk to my friends and see photos of butt naked people doing sexy things and also hear about what videogames are good
and i don't have to fuck with anything, all that stuff just shows up when i look at my twitter
there's nowhere else on the internet that i can go to and get an update on my friend's new kid, a video of a baby otter, a shitpost mixing the gamecube startup screen with an eminem song, and a few pics of giant weiners and floppy titties
I could go look for all of that stuff in different places, but right now I have a place where it just collects up for me to look at without spending all day using the internet like it was 1998
Why are they upset at Trent Reznor now? Also its sad that he's quote tweeting that idiot cat turd.
"I’m about to depart [Twitter]," Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter. "We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment. For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don’t feel good being there anymore."
hello, i'm a journalist for six different corporate media sites you've never heard of. don't go to cohost or mastodon, they're bad and unsafe. instead go to HIVE, a highly polished socmed platform you've never heard of until today that definitely isn't funded by the CIA
as a liberal leftist AND a former contributor to the new york times opinion column, i think we can all agree that social media is only safe when it is in the hands of wealthy private interests. you know you can trust me because i put "feminist" right next to an israel flag emoji
idk man i just think it's funny that this site popped up basically overnight and suddenly the very same liberal journalist class that've been endlessly handwringing about smaller independent social media for weeks are like "at last, a platform you should trust sight unseen!"
like yeah dude you know i've been on twitter for a good few years and i think the most important lesson to take away is that everything about twitter was fine except [mumbles incoherently] which is why we've made twitter but it's also instagram and definitely advertiser friendly
hello, i'm a journalist for six different corporate media sites you've never heard of. don't go to cohost or mastodon, they're bad and unsafe. instead go to HIVE, a highly polished socmed platform you've never heard of until today that definitely isn't funded by the CIA
as a liberal leftist AND a former contributor to the new york times opinion column, i think we can all agree that social media is only safe when it is in the hands of wealthy private interests. you know you can trust me because i put "feminist" right next to an israel flag emoji
idk man i just think it's funny that this site popped up basically overnight and suddenly the very same liberal journalist class that've been endlessly handwringing about smaller independent social media for weeks are like "at last, a platform you should trust sight unseen!"
like yeah dude you know i've been on twitter for a good few years and i think the most important lesson to take away is that everything about twitter was fine except [mumbles incoherently] which is why we've made twitter but it's also instagram and definitely advertiser friendly
Lol, buying the idea that cause you make metal music you are an emotionless entity.
This fool. Look at him. Point and laugh.
Like, yet again, it's completely ineffective as a dunk. Anyone at all familiar with Trent Reznor in the context of the music he makes knows that NIN is all about emotions. Especially ones that prompt crying. Yeah, sometimes (a lot of times) it's angry, or ...
This dumb fuck heard "Closer" and read no further than a surface, "sex, whoOOOA!!!" edginess. So the shitposter (or narcissist) in him assumed --all of a piece-- a 'cool' persona can't admit human feelings.
As if transgressive art is somehow separate from emotion. As if confronting and embracing those emotions is weakness, easy. Blugh.
+8
FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
Why is the immediate assumption CIA backing and not, y'know, some sort of paid ad deal?
Why are they upset at Trent Reznor now? Also its sad that he's quote tweeting that idiot cat turd.
"I’m about to depart [Twitter]," Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter. "We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment. For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don’t feel good being there anymore."
As someone who left twitter back in april when he was first announced as taking it over I will say it did wonders for my mental health.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
The only discords I read are fighting game discords because only chatrooms have a snowball's chance of keeping up
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Lol, buying the idea that cause you make metal music you are an emotionless entity.
This fool. Look at him. Point and laugh.
Like, yet again, it's completely ineffective as a dunk. Anyone at all familiar with Trent Reznor in the context of the music he makes knows that NIN is all about emotions. Especially ones that prompt crying. Yeah, sometimes (a lot of times) it's angry, or ...
This dumb fuck heard "Closer" and read no further than a surface, "sex, whoOOOA!!!" edginess. So the shitposter (or narcissist) in him assumed --all of a piece-- a 'cool' persona can't admit human feelings.
As if transgressive art is somehow separate from emotion. As if confronting and embracing those emotions is weakness, easy. Blugh.
Posts
oh god yes
particularly if it's like someone I have absolutely no connection to
gotta go through all of their tweets, replies, mentions to figure out that it's like
nate silver or something
just someone I could possibly not give less of a shit about, but until I figure out it's them they're the most important controversial figure in the universe
I'm humans are wired to want many things that are not healthy for them in the long term.
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
No see you are supposed to two normal ones and then one weird one, thats the star trek way!
pleasepaypreacher.net
A Tale of Two Twitters
Labor labor labor
*laughs awkwardly* who would ever honkwich anyway
Honkwiching is absolutely normal, conventional behaviour!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I don't particularly need to post
But I do need posts to read
I'm never in a million years gonna join a Discord and start scrolling through a channel and reading
Discord is a more user friendly IRC and I am baffled at folks who suggest it’s a viable Twitter alternative
They’re two entirely different kinds of thing! It’s like if when AIM went down you told its users to switch to twitter as a replacement. They just fulfill entirely different styles of communication.
Elon showing his ultra thin skin by randomly calling Trent Reznor names.
Maybe we can we trick him into shit-talking Taylor Swift and K-Pop and Furries and then just let nature take its course as he's torn to shreds and then the shreds are incinerated
This fool. Look at him. Point and laugh.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Words cannot express how amazing that would be to witness
as it is written, let it be done
and i don't have to fuck with anything, all that stuff just shows up when i look at my twitter
there's nowhere else on the internet that i can go to and get an update on my friend's new kid, a video of a baby otter, a shitpost mixing the gamecube startup screen with an eminem song, and a few pics of giant weiners and floppy titties
I could go look for all of that stuff in different places, but right now I have a place where it just collects up for me to look at without spending all day using the internet like it was 1998
pleasepaypreacher.net
"I’m about to depart [Twitter]," Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter. "We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment. For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don’t feel good being there anymore."
Hive? More like C O L O S S A L P I L L A R O F W A S P E G G S
Apparently it's entirely that he deleted his Twitter account.
LaboUr. European afterall
This dumb fuck heard "Closer" and read no further than a surface, "sex, whoOOOA!!!" edginess. So the shitposter (or narcissist) in him assumed --all of a piece-- a 'cool' persona can't admit human feelings.
As if transgressive art is somehow separate from emotion. As if confronting and embracing those emotions is weakness, easy. Blugh.
As someone who left twitter back in april when he was first announced as taking it over I will say it did wonders for my mental health.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
it's funny to say
His most famous song is literally called Hurt.
It can be both