People call stuff like Lemmy, 4chan or Reddit social media too but to me it’s always these Facebook or Instagram style self-presentation platforms. All of them suck ass.
One thing I’m not a fan of is the argument that “it is what you make of it,” because platforms act entirely differently depending on the other users, the algorithms, methods of interaction, interface, content and culture. Its very difficult for me to to have a good time on facebook because it fails in a lot of those aspects: toxic users, algorithms tbat push nonsense, a bad interface, incompatible content and culture. The general theme is that many social media sites end up being very polarizing and echo chambery.
People call stuff like Lemmy, 4chan or Reddit social media too but to me it’s always these Facebook or Instagram style self-presentation platforms. All of them suck ass.
True those are definitely worse
One thing I’m not a fan of is the argument that “it is what you make of it,” because platforms act entirely differently depending on the other users, the algorithms, methods of interaction, interface, content and culture. Its very difficult for me to to have a good time on facebook because it fails in a lot of those aspects: toxic users, algorithms tbat push nonsense, a bad interface, incompatible content and culture. The general theme is that many social media sites end up being very polarizing and echo chambery.