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Make a minimalistic, lightweight, not gobbling RAM or storage app, and I'd probably use it again.
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Wow. Thanks for the way you put this out. This is exactly how I was feeling / what I was experiencing. So I went ahead, and installed my own MatterMost instance with friends. What I realized recently is that Facebook is built in a way that makes it really hard to have a real conversation. People only share links and shout their opinions with no real place for exchange.
Turns out people don't always wan't their conversations shared with [ramifications of current privacy settings unknown, assumed to be everyone]
1. There is no private (there is, but ignore that)
2. Choose a topic to post about. Further that and none else.
3. Post topical discussions only.
4. Don't involve yourself in screeds. There will be a sentence that is taken out of context.
Doing these creates a really cool group over $thing. And that positive attraction pulls more in :)
This is the good side of social media: connecting people with similar interests from around the world.
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How does this work? I get an error? sed: can't read s/^127.0.0.1 f....
If you're using macOS, you'll need to do sed -i "" ... (put an empty string argument after the -i flag). If the second to last argument on the command line is -i, I think on the version of sed that ships with most distros, sed assumes that the argument to -i is the empty string and that the last argument in the command is the pattern. The version that ships with macOS, on the other hand, always treats the argument af…
sed: can't read s/^127.0.0.1 facebook.com/#127.0.0.1 facebook.com/: No such file or directory
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>"I stopped posting because of the whole thing about social media written in ink." What are you referring to here? Could you elaborate? Newspaper coverage of social media?
I think he means "written in ink" in the sense that something you post cannot be erased, much like how if you write something with a pen, vs with a pencil.
Remember that. We're being used here just as much as on the FAANG platforms.
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I've noticed more people in tech posting mostly political stuff nowadays, when I followed them because of their tech posts. I had to go back and prune my feed to get away from all the bile. Angry political screeds are hard to filter out nowadays.
> Angry political screeds are hard to filter out nowadays. A sign of the times. A lot of people are just really pissed off right now. I also think a lot of people that used to ignore politics realized that it matters...
While political opinions are more numerous, they're divorced from evidence and calcified. As useful as no opinion, and possibly worse. (Then again, that's my opinion, right?)
Note I wrote my father in law when he had gone too far down the rabbit hole and legitimately worried about the poison it spreads around his demographic: I left Facebook when I read some press release about it being designed from the outset to make you feel bad because it keeps you engaged; hoping someone agrees with something you liked or shared and the dopamine hit it releases. I don’t like feeling manipulated and m…
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It is frightening how the internet outrage culture is getting people fired and destroying their lives over some stupid tweet.
The risk/reward of posting humor on the internet nowadays is terrible. Reward is maybe a few of your friends find it funny, maybe it gets ignored. Risk is someone is offended, you lose your livelihood and become an internet pariah because someone organized an angry mob against you on some Discord. Maybe someone doxes you, finds your address and starts harassing you at your home. The internet in 2018 is kind of a terr…
Doing so under your own name, yes. That's why I think places like Reddit are better suited to these kinds of silly things, assuming you don't get doxxed, which can happen.
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I don't think there's any sort of "stigma." There's just the fact that, since "old people" are on Facebook—and that likely includes your parents and other relatives—they all expect you to add them as a Facebook friend. At which point you won't be able to be yourself on Facebook any more, because they can observe any of your "broadcast" activity. The nice thing about the other platforms isn't that they don't have "old…
I don't know. Recently I was at an event where an older teen was giving a speech where he mentioned some social media platform and then explained, "That's like Facebook for you old people". That got quite a laugh, but in my experience there really is a stigma among young people that Facebook is only for old people.
I have teenagers and college-age kids and I'm not surprised in the least. They openly consider Facebook to be a platform for old people. They seem to have moved to more of a distributed social media system. That is, they don't seem to have a central place where they communicate with friends. They seem to move between texts, facetime, tumblr, instagram, phone calls (!), etc. in a fluid manner. Anything except for Face…
People always complain about younger people not getting it, but to me this sounds like a new generation of internet users actively self-regulating their social media use.
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Turns out people don't always wan't their conversations shared with [ramifications of current privacy settings unknown, assumed to be everyone]
That's why I personally like Twitter. 1. There is no private (there is, but ignore that) 2. Choose a topic to post about. Further that and none else. 3. Post topical discussions only. 4. Don't involve yourself in screeds. There will be a sentence that is taken out of context. Doing these creates a really cool group over $thing. And that positive attraction pulls more in :) This is the good side of social media: conne…