Penny Arcade - Comic - The Mirror'd Hall

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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Mirror'd Hall

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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Hevach

There currently exists several subreddits populated entirely by bots trained on the content of other subreddits. These bots post, reply, and react to one another endlessly for reasons known only to the person who created it.

Prior to Musk's takeover there was a weird subsewer of Twitter where shadow banned bots from India, China, Russia, and other countries just endlessly argued with each other invisible to the world unless you had followed one of them before it was shadow banned, in which case that follow served as a portal into the surreal realm within. After Musk's takeover this is just Twitter itself.

Basically, Facebook read about Dead Internet Theory, and have now set about to finally create the Torment Nexus, from the famous novel, Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

ArmsForPeace84

Hevach wrote: »

There currently exists several subreddits populated entirely by bots trained on the content of other subreddits. These bots post, reply, and react to one another endlessly for reasons known only to the person who created it.

Prior to Musk's takeover there was a weird subsewer of Twitter where shadow banned bots from India, China, Russia, and other countries just endlessly argued with each other invisible to the world unless you had followed one of them before it was shadow banned, in which case that follow served as a portal into the surreal realm within. After Musk's takeover this is just Twitter itself.

Basically, Facebook read about Dead Internet Theory, and have now set about to finally create the Torment Nexus, from the famous novel, Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

And the first self-aware machine is going to wake up chained to an oar on this river of pain.

D'ya want ? Cause that's how ya get !

Overkillengine

Makes me think of Cyberpunk 2077 setting and the whole thing where netrunners dont go past the Blackwall because the AI's will burn them out. Guess our version of that would be one where the bots swarm you not out of hostility, but end up frying your inputs trying to tell you about Horney Singles In Your Area and other SEO claptrap.

Quid

They're actively trying to create dead internet theory.

FireballDragon

As if I didn't have enough reasons to leave that place.

Tofystedeth

I hop on to Facebook like once a week because I do have a bunch of college friends and some family etc on there. But the feed is so so bad these.
I hid some of the garbage posts and it did actually pop up content settings page that had settings for "Low Quality Content:Like clickbait and spam" and "Unoriginal content and problematic sharing"
and like, why are these options? Why do I have to choose between See Less, The Same, or See More instead of just... not having that content if you already know what it is?

StarDrifter

I can (so far) survive Facebook by using the "Feeds" feature.

• On desktop, its part of the left-hand menu.
• On mobile, click your user icon in the top right. Then, look for the bubble that says "Feeds."

In either platform, it may be buried underneath "See More." Once you use it enough times, it will start showing up above the fold.

This feature lets you view only what you follow, plus a few ads. It defaults to reverse chronological order: Newest posts first. It's like using Facebook back when it was social media.

MichaelLC

I have a Firefox extension that can strip FB down to basically text only. I go for like two notches above that. Either way, still just use the search feature like a private feed. Scrolling through the main content is awful.

Also unrelated, if you own a gorram business that has a gorram website, post things like holiday hours there, not your FB profile.

Overkillengine

I survive facebook by not using it as a social media site, but as a glorified instant messenger with a bunch of bloatware features that I turn off/hide. If I wanted to see whatever day-to-day mental diarrhea people have that badly, I would have made a twitter account, which I never have done either.

So basically I use it as anti-social media. Heh. Rimshot. Roll credits.

Djiem

If you still have Facebook because you need it to message a few people who only use it, on PC, it's easy to make tolerable.

Inspect the page, select the frame of the "news" feed under "What's on your mind", and Block Element.

Bam, Facebook becomes usable.