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Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by notheguyouthink »

egypturnash wrote: post #32
TremendousJudge wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon

are you sure this is not actually an advantage

It is and it isn't. I imagine your humor implies that technical people are using Mastadon, ie the same type that would be using HN, but the reality is that while that is true, Twitter "rejects" are also using Mastadon. Sometimes this means communities filled with very.. controversial people.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by Dennip »

umvi wrote: post #15

Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is. Let's go down the list: - HUGE (>300 MB) - Extremely Slow/Laggy UI - Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.) - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) I only use it to stay in the loop o…

I find it practically unusable on my iphone 6+, whilst other apps work fine.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by captainbland »

TremendousJudge wrote: post #29
captainbland wrote: post #26

Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.

>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon

Have you met people on twitter?

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by JBReefer »

sergiotapia wrote: post #34

>Employees show up in groups of about a dozen, sit cross-legged on black cushions, and take turns with the “talking piece,” a heart-shaped purple geode that gives the bearer the right to confidentially share deep thoughts. Is this SOP in sillicon valley?

At this point I just take everything I hear about the valley as gospel - but always assume there's a healthy dose of harassment. So, so happy there's other options for tech.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by Filligree »

dvtrn wrote: post #25
urtrs wrote: post #18

> The meeting I attended started with an employee lighting a candle in the center of the circle to dedicate the session to a cause, and then proceeded with a series of free-­association prompts. A moderator asked us to tell a story about our names or a memory related to summer. This seems to me more like a cult than a company but maybe it works.

I'd be inordinately curious to hear from anyone as to how it works though.

There was an article very recently about how rituals help. Let's see... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817912

Cults do the same thing, but doesn't mean it's inherently culty. It just easily lends itself to that.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by code_duck »

TremendousJudge wrote: post #29
captainbland wrote: post #26

Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.

>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon

Much like here, where I only talk to the kind of person who would sign up for Hacker News. Oh, wait... that’s a good thing.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by kaycebasques »

Didn’t read the article, but just noting my impression based on the title (which is currently “Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter is a Hot Mess, What is Snapchat Doing?”)... maybe social media is in a “trough of disillusionment” akin to Gartner’s Hype Cycle? I’m suggesting this based on my interpretation that there seems to be a pervasive dissatisfaction and mistrust of social media in general.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by captainbland »

notheguyouthink wrote: post #41
egypturnash wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you sure this is not actually an advantage

It is and it isn't. I imagine your humor implies that technical people are using Mastadon, ie the same type that would be using HN, but the reality is that while that is true, Twitter "rejects" are also using Mastadon. Sometimes this means communities filled with very.. controversial people.

Yeah again I guess this is the choice isn't it? Those communities spring up everywhere, but instances can still block one-another. I'd say it's better to have a choice of moderation style than one grand overseer.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

captainbland wrote: post #43
TremendousJudge wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon

Have you met people on twitter?

Have you met people?

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by gmueckl »

AJRF wrote: post #31
lanevorockz wrote: post #21

Nobody that is smart trusts a company that provides services for free. If you are not paying you are the product and not the client.

Unrelated: Chrome extension that changes the sentence "If you are not paying you are the product and not the client" to white space.

This comes to my mind: https://xkcd.com/2015/
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