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.
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
Facebook, I live in a small rural town of about 4000 people and the amount of brain damage that is posted is insane. Not just political but just everything in general is just brain rot.
I like deliberate brainrot. Not accidental brainrot
Agreed. I have not actively used Facebook in years, but it is a bit of a joy to login once a month and just scroll through all of the lunacy.
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 brajnrkt or memes which is fine by me. I just dont interact with the site ony 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.
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
I don’t know which I hate the most, but since I don’t use any Meta products (finally dropped Whatsapp too last March), or Twitter (which I dropped after they made BetterTweetDeck unusable even before Felon took over), or Reddit (got banned from r/worldnews, r/asmongold among others), or Snapchat (which went along with insta and Threads earlier), so basically the only social media I actively use is… Youtube? And I hate all the social media aspects in there that I cannot evade. So I guess Youtube’s social media AI slop is the one I tolerate the most.
I dont even think of yt as social media but a video hosting site.
Yeah, that (the video hosting) is why I’m still using it. I started using Youtube in high school at the latest, so around 20 years ago (Youtube was launched in -05 so it couldn’t be earlier) and it’s the only one from those days I still use. But because everything tries to be a social media, and because of Alphabet’s rampant capitalism and the continued enshittification of everything it lies its grubby, fat, little fingers (kinda like DJT’s in a way), it has those disgusting aspects of social media forced on its users.
btw have you encountered the forced AI voice translation of videos yet? if there is one part of modern internet that I hate and absolutely despise the most, that causes more rashes than ads and more epileptic fits than all of the AI slop you can force down my throat, is when the internet is in my own language when it shouldn’t be and I have never asked it to be. if I’d want to watch shit in my own language I’d fucking search for shit in my own language, and there is a reason I never do (because it’s shit and cringe as fuck). if you’re gonna offer this service to the unwashed masses, at least let them op out. But no, it’s always on by default, and the video creator has to turn it off.
Ive seen ai videos with ai voices. Including translations. I despise it all. Just skip all ai slop, but never forced translations. Just stuff that people have translated and posted. Didnt realise yt was doing this.
Ofc auto subtitle translations ive used
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.
Its so so creepy
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.
I’m only working now because someone browsed my linked in and asked if I’m open to contract work.
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.
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.
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
The way Reddit fosters echo-chambers probably makes it the worst in my book.
As if the idea of a sub wasn’t echo chambery enough you add downvotes to that
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
Insta is all thirst traps somehow.
You get recommended what you see. My Instagram is all photography.
X, for all the reasons.
Seen Kyle? Have you seen Kyle?
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.
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.
Facebook, for all that they were and all that they have become. I don’t use it, won’t use it, but I can’t change the others’ behavior, and so its very existence continues to reduce my quality of life. Facebook gave us Facebook, Zuck, and eventually Meta. I do not like them, Sam I Am.
I use WhatsApp and now insta a little so Facebook is in my life but dont have Facebook itself
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.
That is the way. (Also what ive mostly done until last week)
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.
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.
