The Octonaut

Can I ask what I’m sure everyone is thinking, how are any of those things improved by being tiny?

The number of people that do this is not going to even remotely shift the usage share percentage.

The citizens of the world’s exceptionalist democracy when the government tyranny their guns are supposed to be for don’t represent them:

All of them. We’re all full thanks very much. Maybe you can claim to be Jewish and Israel will give you a passport.

“I can’t protest my country’s participation in a genocide because it’s too inconvenient” OK ‘bro’.

Sorry mate we’re full

of Palestinians because none of you care about your country’s behaviour until it impacts you personally

Why the oddly specific time period? Is something happening in a month, or are you doing something so that you won’t feel like this in a month?

Why are its eyes on the back wall of its orifice

tourists

Must be really strange to have all those tourists come to your mountain top.

Again, it’s not about links or about comments. It’s about the focus of the content. My friend, I have been shitposting on the Internet quite likely longer than you’ve been alive, so no, I’m not ignoring the content. And I was on Facebook for the best part of a decade so no, no shame there either.

But Usenet isn’t social media. Forums aren’t social media. Comment boxes aren’t social media. The term came about when people started friending and following and tagging each other and generally caring who the other person is - without which all of these previous examoles are just more chatrooms and forums. If Social Media is literally just communicating in any way on the Internet, then the term is useless.

They share them as a once off. Very occasionally you’ll get the “Update: MIL stole our baby” posts, but mostly it doesn’t matter (and shouldn’t matter) who is posting the content. In social media, who is posting matters.

You have the oddities on Reddit occasion like that terrible poet and the comic lady that has her OF simps brigade her posts, but just look at how utterly useless and rejected all of Reddit’s attempts to turn it into social media are: follows, journals, chat - features of genuine social media but done poorly and with the wrong audience who distinctly Don’t want to follow personalities.

Because by that criteria every web page that’s ever had a comment box is “social media”.

Social media to me is, as the guy said, defined by the fact that you’re following a person/persona, not a topic.

This site and other sites like it are link aggregators. If you wanted to, you could use and contribute to a link aggregator without ever writing or indeed reading a comment.

I had YouTube Premium after Vanced was killed. I gave it a fair go. No ads- great, it is now back to how it was a decade ago. But also no SponsorBlock - and my God, how many channels I realised I couldn’t listen to anymore when 50% of every video was an ad for one of three online services or games I’m definitely not going to ever pay for. So now I just… don’t watch YouTube on my phone. Hurray?

Seriously, if the ads are supposedly worth €15 a month, pay the fucking YouTubers enough that I don’t have to listen to a linguist try to sell me WarThunder

It’s a really bloody weird experience as an Irish child of the 80s to be on a dancefloor in Kuala Lumpur and suddenly loads of Asians are moshing to a song about how your parents’ generation are going to get everyone killed for pointless hatred. “Why are you crying? Don’t you like Halloween?”

Nobody is disabling 4G bands except the bands they lied about being 4G in the first place?

This version is ancient and yet I’ve only just noticed now that the left hand side photos are the same photo horizontal flipped.

Yes. Microblogging in general. It started bad with “had toast this morning” and “look at my lunch” and somehow we got influencers out of it.

No he isn’t? Social media is centred on posting about yourself and following people to see what they post. This is a link aggregation site with a comments section. By the definition of “place you can go and post comments on a topic”, then Usenet is social media. Every website with a comment section is social media

The letters section of your newspaper is social media. No, the whole point and problem of social media is that people make it about themselves.

Always has been

Yeah I agree. Which is why the bot copying all its text here and denying them any traffic from this link aggregator site is bad.