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Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Ummmmmmm gonna need some kinda citation there. Radicalized groups that meet increase one another’s radicalization as they bounce off of one another and egg each other on. I want people to get together more, it’s absolutely good for them, but I think there’s certain groups that should absolutely be discouraged. Like sorry if the only thing that gets you going is fantasizing about obliterating ethnic groups but you mig…

so how do you encourage everyone except white suprematists to get out more? What does that raising awareness campaign look like? Tbh getting out more is probably more necessary for such people than anyone else.

> so how do you encourage everyone except white suprematists to get out more?

Shut down and disperse groups of white supremacists. Amend the right to free assembly to exclude hate groups, because we don't need to tolerate that if we don't want to.

And before you say "well who decides what's a ha-" there is a well articulated subjective process for determining that already, and most of the groups that meet the definition are indeed supremacist/nationalist groups of any sort. It is not perfect, because no human made system is, but I fail to understand why that then means we must tolerate all of these with zero effort put to police them. We know what's a hate group, just like we know what's a hate crime. The fact that idiots in the media and on the internet misuse or over-generalize the term doesn't change anything.

> Tbh getting out more is probably more necessary for such people than anyone else.

I would agree, just not for hateful reasons. Come up with something else.

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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"Users near you" functionality is sorely needed in online spaces, considering how much interaction has moved online. Reddit has worked around their lack of it to some degree with location-based subreddits like r/AtlFilmmakers. But subreddits are high maintenance, and they isolate content. Plus, the naming conventions aren't standard. Maybe there's r/AtlFilmmakers for filmmakers in Atlanta, but another subreddit for m…

TikTok is the only app I’ve encountered that gets this right. I’ve made connections with people from my town and places just outside where I live. I’d love to see more apps do what TikTok does.

Same, I met one of my friends on TikTok, commenting about an event nearby.

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Yeah. It’s highly addictive. I have screentime for “fun apps” set to 30 mins now because it will suck you in for hours if you’re not careful.

I can honestly say I’ve never viewed a single tiktok video, and I intend to keep this true. Fuck that noise.

It also has a lot of educational content, etc. - just like YouTube or Twitch.

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. I strongly believe in the autism as extreme male brain hypothesis for this reason. Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)

> All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun". > Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them? > Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests) Some were (…

> Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun".

This is what I'd suspect. I'm a lesbian and hang out pretty equally in very male dominated and very female dominated places online. I find it really interesting that most hobby/fandom spaces online do unofficially segregate by gender to the point where it's common in both to just assume everybody there is male/female (and straight, of course, because this all kind of relies on straight gender roles).

> Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them?

Yeah, I'm in several female dominated servers and have been in the past. I will say that more of the female dominated servers are private/not advertised, specifically to keep them from being overrun and keeping them a manageable size.

In general, the women care more about curating the social space for ease of connection and are more conscientious when it comes to things like considering how big a server can be before it's a pain to mod, what the impacts of creating another channel would be, what the impacts would be of creating restricted channels would be, etc. Guys wing it more.

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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I can honestly say I’ve never viewed a single tiktok video, and I intend to keep this true. Fuck that noise.

It also has a lot of educational content, etc. - just like YouTube or Twitch.

So does the Bible

Edit: as does the Art of War, the Quran, the 1981 fall almanac, etc. education is almost a farce in 2024

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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so how do you encourage everyone except white suprematists to get out more? What does that raising awareness campaign look like? Tbh getting out more is probably more necessary for such people than anyone else.

> so how do you encourage everyone except white suprematists to get out more? Shut down and disperse groups of white supremacists. Amend the right to free assembly to exclude hate groups, because we don't need to tolerate that if we don't want to. And before you say "well who decides what's a ha-" there is a well articulated subjective process for determining that already, and most of the groups that meet the definit…

> Amend the right to free assembly to exclude…

Im glad you are not in charge

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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That a lot of people go to bars to hang out with their friends, or especially hang out with their friends + meet some new friends of friends. And it's kind of weird to just go to a bar, alone, and try and find other lonely people to fuck for a single night. But hey, that's what some people are looking for.

you gotta love this idea that you're a creep if you're alone. Only show up if you already have friends. So if you have no friends there's no way to get any because you're a creep if you're alone we need a new woke meme to shame people who shit on people who don't have friends

There’s a difference between going to a bar alone, and going alone with the sole intention to find a one-night-stand. It’s the latter people find creepy.

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Can't be overstated how good having a setting centered on some common activity with low stakes social interaction is for building relationships, romantic as well as platonic. Hookup culture just isn't for everyone, and the notion that it is has been the cause of a lot of grief and agony.

It is also extremely powerful for mental health. Having something to look forward and that anticipation has enumerable benefits. Also, every hobby has people who LOVE to help newbies and will talk infinitely about all the minutiae of all the things.

Re: Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

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Look, even if it's white supremacists, it's still good for their mental health to meet up irl.

Uhh, one of them bashes the skull of the other in when they meet up. Blunt force trauma is not good for mental health.

Yeah and it's also not part of socializing. This is a nothing burger
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