With the war in Pakistan i had to download reddit, insta and twitter to keep up.
I genuinely despise them so much and going back to non lemmy social media after so long just reminds me of how fucking grateful I am that Lemmy exists.
Bluesky is fine simply bc there is noone there. The people who post moved but the masses didn’t.
LinkedIn in lunatics.
Reddit is probably the one ive ended up gating more than any other despite it being the one I could bear pre Lemmy.
Twitter I haven’t used much anyways. But feels horrible with the limited use.
Insta is all thirst traps somehow.
The way Reddit fosters echo-chambers probably makes it the worst in my book.
Reddit might be bad but the garbage rage baiting and algorithms designed to show you the dumbest takes on twitter and threads is sooo much worse in my opinion
As if the idea of a sub wasn’t echo chambery enough you add downvotes to that
Instagram, maybe? I can avoid twitter, but Instagram is a different kind of pain for me. The closest alternative is fucking xiouhongshu (rednote) and that is literally Chinese
Literally Chinese being the critique is so funny
I suppose Facebook, if only because it’s the hardest to avoid for me. Friends, family, local businesses, charities, bands I follow, bands I play in, friggin everything is on FB and the feed is such a cesspool at this point. And the only thing that might have a snowball’s chance in Hell of challenging its dominance is maybe Discord? Some of my friends seem to be spending more time there of late, and a few community groups I’m involved with have started their own too. But I dunno.
No chance in hell discord replaces it. I can’t understand discord no way grandma’s are.
I especially hate that Reddit sold out so hard, because it really is the only search result worth anything anymore. I quit Instagram and Twitter as well, can’t quite give up Facebook because of my Livejournal friends. Would give my kidney for Livejournal to make a comeback.
Reddit was genuinely good at a point! It’s insane how far it fell in 2 years. Or maybe my standards are different now
Twitter
I never used twitter, but even before Musk took over it was ALWAYS a fundamentally negative force. Whenever its name was cited it was some shit. People fighting and wishing each other dead.
Other social media all has that, but Twitter seems to be ONLY that
Linkedin is pure business ghoul bullshit with no redeeming qualities but you’re forced to have one for “networking” so I’d say that’s the worst one.
you’re forced to have one for “networking”
Does it even do its job in this regard?
kind of. looking for a new job without it is rough.
not because they are essential for networking but because they positioned themselves as gatekeepers of employment.
the thing i want the most is for some industrious hacker to take it down forever, the world will be better off without it.
Its so so creepy
Tik Tok, mostly because it represent “fast entertainment” and is the epitome of “the algorithm chooses for you” which is what I despise the most. Now everythink tries to be like it because it’s famous, and everythink is more shitty.
But thats what all social media has always been? Or long been
To a certain extent yes, but at least on most social you at least follow single creators you enjoy, and you are usually presented with a lost of content they made so you choose. With tik tok you are served a random video and the algorithm chooses the next one, I don’t even know if when finished to see a video you can get a list of reccommended of you are served one only. It’s just a differenr structure.
I don’t have the energy to hate like that. If I don’t like it and I’m not getting any use out of it, I just avoid it.
i hate when i’m forced to use something that i don’t like, yea. wish i could avoid so much of the garbage in my life.
That is the way. (Also what ive mostly done until last week)
Instagram/Facebook and its “Business” products. I truly believe Meta actively works on making its products as unusable as possible in a brower. As in: removing, breaking or obscuring functions that work in their apps. **This makes working as a team with different device types a massive pain in the ass. **
Don’t even try to be logged out of an account and use these sites in a browser. You might as well have a 5 year old write a html page on a ducking Disney Princess Play Click & Swap Laptop that is more usable in a browser than Instagram without an account.
For sheer aggravation, Facebook. I’ve been on it long enough to remember the chronological timeline, which made it easy to see your friends’ posts. Now you basically have to visit your friends’ profile to see what they’ve posted recently.
Instagram/Threads I don’t hate quite so much, but I avoid Meta products as much as possible due to my hatred of Zuck. I left Twitter and Reddit a while ago, not because I hated them but rather because I hate Elon and spez.
Not even war could make me download Facebook
Twitter I’ve hated since before Musk owned it, but I’d say Instagram is the one I hate the most, mainly because of how overtly hypocritical, condescending, passive-aggressive and false its culture is. At least Twitter is honest, somehow.
If twitter is the eden for Nazis, Instagram is the eden for Karens.
On insta I barely look at comments and my friends send brainrot or memes which is fine by me. I just dont interact with the site on my own and that makes it bareable.
Don’t post or comment anything.
This is the reason I like Lemmy lol. Posting and interacting with people is nice.
Reddit. When they implemented their API pricing, they could have been upfront, but instead they put words into the mouths of 3rd party developers. When the 3rd party developers posted the recordings of the conversations, Reddit doubled down instead of apologizing. At that point, I washed my hands of Reddit. People who will directly lie in the face of evidence cannot be trusted. I have not been back since.
Reddit was always like this.
Now they’ve made ads indistinguishable from posts.
The discourse is generally low quality, divisive and likely bot driven.
Yes the quality of discourse is in the gutters.
Thats the biggest problem now
This is the reason why i left, i do miss some of the niche communities but i can’t trust a site like that.
I just liked the concept of having subreddits. But Lemmy kind if fills that for me now so I am fine without it.
Linkedin. Its all fake shit…
The human centipede of social media.
I did hate X but am off that cesspit now. I hate hate hate what Facebook has become. I can now only bear to go on there about once a month and everytime I get angry as fuck.
I miss MySpace.
MySpace is before my time. My first account was fb I think.
Yeah twitter was the one that made me quit all social media years ago.
Twitter may be embracing fascist slop, nazi bullshit, and gorenography, but I still think Instagram is worse. It is near impossible to see what your friends are posting if they’re not an overachiever meme page or a corporate entity, the fyp is like the same 5 or 4 tags of content you’ve liked recently, and let’s not forget that they did nothing to address the hate algorithms that were exposed years ago
