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good for you
don't you want to know what I think good shows are?
So I have to think up a dismissive one-liner? Nope, thanks
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Audre Lorde chose her words carefully. Her use of “master” holds clear connotations that black people are still not free and the struggle continues. You can’t tear down the master’s house when you yourself are one of his tools. It’s powerful because it’s a personal challenge in the context of white supremacy. And whenever you use the phrase, some decent percentage of your audience will be put off by it and wonder why…
No, I don't fence off metaphors for exclusivity. Good ones get reused. And claiming Lorde was only talking about race is simply incorrect.
Of course she wasn’t; she’s a poet so everything she says has multiple meanings, but context matters. The issue of race and personal marginalization is inextricable from the quote. She would have used a different word than “Master” otherwise. Context crushing it this way diminishes the effectiveness of any argument you may be using it in support of. You can choose to use whatever metaphors you want, but other people will add their own context.
It’s the same reason you can’t say things like “final solution” — the phrase has societal context and its use is distracting at best when used in another context.
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Which countries in Asia still count it as the most popular messaging app? China is on WeeChat, Korea has KakaoTalk and LINE is everywhere else. It is pretty amazing that Meta had three messaging apps and none of them are close to something like LINE in terms of ubiquity or utility.
I've never heard of LINE. What makes it different?
Asian messenger apps like LINE are really more of an “everything app.” I use LINE to chat with everyone. In Taiwan it’s a given that that anyone you meet will have LINE. Businesses have a special business line account that staff can use. You can book your hotel, vet apt, reserve a table, etc because every business has LINE. You can pay for things with it by letting someone scan your code or or pay for things online by clicking a link that opens line so you can authorize the payment.
As far as the messenger goes, it works really well. They’ve done the best job I’ve seen at making chat history searchable or let you jump to a date instead of scrolling backwards for an hour. They also allow you to send cute stickers, and they are used constantly.
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#355Instagram has slowly been deprioritizing content creation and promoting content consumption. This was clearest to me when they recently moved the Post button up to the top, out of the way, to make room for more consumption buttons within thumb reach. For a good long time IG was the only place I could reliably see actual user-generated content. Moreover it was actual friend-generated content, and mostly they posted th…
Check out Imgur's usersub. Lots of crap, but isn't art just screwing around with crap?
I only use it on my PC though. I really don't like the app, and imgur has purposely ruined the mobile web version to push me there.
I sort of recall the moment where imgur straight up disabled functionality of the mobile web site. I think it was that you can't post content via the mobile website anymore.
That was when I just stopped using it on my phone and exclusively use it on the PC. Yeah I could switch to desktop mode on my phone to keep posting, but it wasn't worth the hassle. Much less use by the way.
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#356All social media-ish platforms are increasingly awful. FB, Twitter, Reddit, IG - all aggressively trying to make you create account and log in, hiding/clobbering content if you're not. Less and less content from people I explicitly followed, and more from "we think you'll like this tweet from someone that is followed by Bob" (not even liked or retweeted by people I know!).
The changes to Instagrams algorithms are, just like those of Facebook, to optimize "engagement". Where I believe most platforms fail is how they measure their improvements. For the first weeks, or months, people just sort of deal with the new algorithms, because Facebook, Instagram and so on is part of their rutine. Engangement goes up, because people stay longer, as they can find anything. Over time, engagement then…
Yeah, it feels like an evil cycle. And since no one reverts anything because ego and stuff, they just keep digging their hole. "The numbers started going down... We need to throw even more random shit to catch users' attention and make them stay longer" (just my theory, maybe I'm wrong)
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Except at least in my case, I do rewatch YouTube videos a lot.
Seems like something an algorithm could be modified to take into account ~ a given users proclivity to rewatch/review the same content. After a few recommendations of seen content, if that particular user isn't engaging, decrease their "rewatch recommendation" parameter.
It seems clicking "not interested" has no effect on YouTubes recommendations for me. I will see videos I clicked not into on on a week or two again.
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#358I think Facebook (meta)‘s key asset is now WhatsApp. Facebook is practically dead. It’s just a stream of awful content that isn’t from your friends. It’s hyper advertising and desperate attempts to clone other platforms as it slowly dies. It’ll continue for a long time, eventually becoming yahoo like, but young people do not care about it at all. Instagram has similarly been over monetised but in an earlier stage. It…
Ukraine is of course no major market for Facebook, but it's a good example that doesn't match what you describe at all. In Ukraine, Facebook is the place where you follow top journalists, anti-corruption people, activists, and other public figures. It's basically an extremely valuable addition to the media, where anyone can be lifted in popularity in a matter of hours if their content is truly important. Facebook has…
Facebook has only become as popular in Ukraine as it is to fill the void created by the government blocking VKontakte. And some Ukrainians I know do still use VKontakte despite that.
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#359I've completely lost touch with most of my family due to the degraded user experience of facebook and instagram in the last several years. It's all just a huge mess now, and I have no idea how anybody is supposed to navigate it and just simply keep in touch with people. At least a few people have moved to other messenger services.
Have you tried making a discord server? My server is my social media entirely now and I love it. The hard part is getting non gamers into it.
I wish we could force advasarial integration on social media like we did with telephones. Imagine only being able to call and talk to only other people on the Sprint network.
Let the tech companies compete on UX and what they do with your data. Don't hide my friends and family away from me
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Seems like something an algorithm could be modified to take into account ~ a given users proclivity to rewatch/review the same content. After a few recommendations of seen content, if that particular user isn't engaging, decrease their "rewatch recommendation" parameter.
It seems clicking "not interested" has no effect on YouTubes recommendations for me. I will see videos I clicked not into on on a week or two again.
Well, you're right of course. And I experience the same thing as well. My point really was that it seems like something that would be straight forward enough to implement in an algorithm. Whether they actually do is another question....