Bongo Heracles
Junior Member
Technically illegal to ride on public land
Posts: 4,634
Member is Online
|
Post by Bongo Heracles on Feb 21, 2024 9:18:30 GMT
U jk but EG is actually a pretty good example of what I'm talking. A solid enthusiast site that I visited every day, sold to a multi-media conglomerate and I only visit there now if someone links to an article on how its on the edge of folding or something.
|
|
otto
New Member
Posts: 964
|
Post by otto on Feb 21, 2024 9:29:26 GMT
Though it does have a pretty slick UI. Does Bluesky have verified accounts? (as in proper ones, not just paid for ones) Yes, the way it verifies accounts is great, if a bit technical - you essentially use your own web domain as your handle by tweaking your DNS records. So on Bluesky I'm @ottocr.at bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial |
|
otto
New Member
Posts: 964
|
Post by otto on Feb 21, 2024 9:30:46 GMT
In this way, it's similar to how Mastodon handles verification, and makes loads more sense - it's not about some moderator making arbitrary subjective decisions as to whether your account is real and is worthy of recognition - it's a straightforward way of proving that you are who you claim to be.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 21, 2024 9:33:48 GMT
Though it does have a pretty slick UI. Does Bluesky have verified accounts? (as in proper ones, not just paid for ones) Yes, the way it verifies accounts is great, if a bit technical - you essentially use your own web domain as your handle by tweaking your DNS records. So on Bluesky I'm @ottocr.at This might explain why I couldn't find an official looking Taylor Swift account. She needs to tweak her DNS record (Taylor's Version)! |
|
|
|
Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 21, 2024 9:36:31 GMT
The issues with social media are basically the issues with the internet in general.
Everything is commodified. Most of all the users.
And it's only going to get more commodified.
|
|
Bongo Heracles
Junior Member
Technically illegal to ride on public land
Posts: 4,634
Member is Online
|
Post by Bongo Heracles on Feb 21, 2024 9:40:42 GMT
I think there will be cycles. Like Pitchfork. People still want that kind of content, I think, its just not very profitable after acquisitions and mergers. Someone will basically reinvent pitchfork with love and dedication, organically grow the audience, have it acquired, the aquirer will ruin it and shutter the operation, someone will start a music review site, it will grow organically....
There is only so far you can take the homogenisation before people stop giving a fuck.
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Feb 28, 2024 11:59:43 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by JuniorFE on Feb 28, 2024 12:05:07 GMT
Middle-age Memer Xitter Owner
Middle-age Memer Xitter Owner
Middle-age Memer Xitter Owner
Rich man in a cheap suit
Moron Power!
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,110
|
Post by Ulythium on Feb 28, 2024 12:12:34 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by JuniorFE on Feb 28, 2024 12:15:24 GMT
Well clearly she's wrong, doesn't she see that blue checkmark they all paid for? /s |
|
|
|
Post by gibroon on Feb 28, 2024 13:25:17 GMT
Just don't go on Tw@tter? If a platform you are on is doing nothing to stop the hate speech, stop using the hate spreading, shit stirring Bile Titan platform. Is it really that hard to just leave it? Do you really need to be on X to make your life meaningful?
Obviously X should be doing more about it but its track record is hardly glowing.
|
|
|
|
Post by JuniorFE on Feb 28, 2024 13:41:39 GMT
I can only speak for myself, but I for one don't actually use it (I had an account on it basically just for some other game's account recovery and being able to view tweet replies, got logged out of it at some point and couldn't be arsed to log back in)
The problem with quitting it entirely is, as I've mentioned a few times, that a great amount of things I want to stay updated on (art, game announcements etc) is either still only on Twitter or conveniently gathers on Twitter, to the point where even if I, I dunno, wanted to look at leaks for upcoming content for X game on another website, a subreddit or something, more often than not there'd be Twitter links anyway. Unfortunately, until and unless its alternatives gain enough traction or everyone decides to collectively jump ship, there is no other way...
|
|
|
|
Post by gibroon on Feb 28, 2024 13:50:28 GMT
Can you not just Google(other search engines available)the things you are interested in? Surely whatever is linked on X will take you to a website?
|
|
otto
New Member
Posts: 964
|
Post by otto on Feb 28, 2024 13:53:42 GMT
I haven't been on Twitter *at all* in over a year. Not even when work wants me to. Absolutely not giving that place my patronage, full stop. So there is another way. I get that it's not a way that everyone will choose to take, even if they dislike what's happening to the place, because reasons. But there is another way.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 28, 2024 13:54:35 GMT
The problem is that lots of websites just embed stuff from Twitter. For example, here, the bbc, etc..
And if it's more than a few lines then you have to click on it and go to twitter to see the full thing.
On the plus side, since i'm not signed in, I can't see any of the hateful replies that are probably under it.
On the minus side, when people do that infuruating thing of telling a story across 27 tweets, instead of just writing it somewhere where they could write the whole thing, I can only see the first one. (or maybe that's a plus)
But I maintain that if journalists would stop using it so much, or relying on it so much to create their stories, I could probably ignore it entirely.
|
|
|
|
Post by JuniorFE on Feb 28, 2024 14:09:25 GMT
Can you not just Google(other search engines available)the things you are interested in? Surely whatever is linked on X will take you to a website? That works in some cases. Not if what I'm looking for happens to only be on Twitter though, which happens more often than you'd think (or that I'd like, for that matter, it's not like I enjoy giving Muskrat clicks). Even with art, while it's not all of it, a good amount of the search results are on there... |
|
|
|
Post by gibroon on Feb 28, 2024 14:22:52 GMT
I'll admit it is just something I've never been interested in.
Maybe due to age but I remember in an elevator(I was in the US) and two guys were laughing at one of his tweets to someone and the other guy retweeted his friends tweet and they were giggling away like they just owned the world.
I just rolled my eyes thinking what the actual fuck is the world coming to.
|
|
|
|
Post by rhaegyr on Feb 28, 2024 14:26:19 GMT
I've not had Facebook for 10+ years and never had a Twitter account.
I don't feel like I've missed out on any content (that I can't get from various other sites) and can still click on the odd video/image despite not having an account.
Are there really things produced on twitter that people can't find anywhere else? This may be my own limited knowledge but I thought (like Facebook) twitter just sourced content from other places via web links, video embeds etc?
|
|
geefe
Full Member
Short for Zangief
Posts: 8,323
|
Post by geefe on Feb 28, 2024 14:27:29 GMT
The flip side to that is I was in the chip shop the other day and an old man was complaining about phones being used for everything, even NHS. "I haven't got a mobile but I've got something better - a life".
Couldn't help myself. Proper cut him to shreds. Explained how using the online booking system for my GP and accepting a video appointment I could take it at work, get diagnosed and have my follow up with specialist booked 2 weeks after my initial inquiry.
Then he said "well obviously I've got an old Nokia"
|
|
Tuffty
Junior Member
Posts: 3,620
|
Post by Tuffty on Feb 28, 2024 14:33:24 GMT
Boy I sure love the idea of having to play the market anytime I want to...eat a burger.
|
|
|
|
Post by technoish on Feb 28, 2024 15:08:19 GMT
Just some tech bro fantasy inventing equivalent to discounts for slow times/days, and higher prices for premium venues.
|
|
Bongo Heracles
Junior Member
Technically illegal to ride on public land
Posts: 4,634
Member is Online
|
Post by Bongo Heracles on Feb 28, 2024 15:08:56 GMT
Apparently, the latest made up thing that the Tesla Roadster will do is 0-60 in 'less than one second' which puts it at pulling around 3G, the start of the threshold where fighter pilots start losing their vision.
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Feb 28, 2024 15:22:11 GMT
I'm sure regular tyres will provide the grip required to launch it that quickly.
|
|
mcmonkeyplc
Junior Member
General Martok Qapla!
Posts: 3,088
|
Post by mcmonkeyplc on Feb 28, 2024 15:25:11 GMT
I'm equally sure such a vehicle would pass the NCAP safety rating procedure...
|
|
otto
New Member
Posts: 964
|
Post by otto on Feb 28, 2024 15:43:27 GMT
I'm sure regular tyres will provide the grip required to launch it that quickly. Even on my non-performance EV I know not to floor it from a standstill as the tyres will nope out on me |
|
cubby
Full Member
doesn't get subtext
Posts: 6,371
|
Post by cubby on Feb 28, 2024 15:46:29 GMT
I'm sure Elon's reinvented the wheel to solve that issue.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fake_Blood on Feb 28, 2024 15:56:48 GMT
I guess that’s where those 10 small rocket thrusters come into play.
|
|
Vortex
Full Member
Harvey Weinstein's Tattered Penis
is apparently a mangina.
Posts: 5,401
|
Post by Vortex on Feb 28, 2024 15:57:18 GMT
Yeah. Launch control is available from your implanted brain chip...
|
|
|
|
Post by grey_matters on Feb 28, 2024 16:45:34 GMT
I guess that’s where those 10 small rocket thrusters come into play. "Would a Tesla Roadster on a treadmill take off?" |
|
geefe
Full Member
Short for Zangief
Posts: 8,323
|
Post by geefe on Feb 28, 2024 16:53:27 GMT
"Now can we put those cool flames on the side?"
|
|
