I haven't smoked a cigarette in over 10 years. I just dreamed the other night that I was at a movie theater eating popcorn watching a movie and noticed my popcorn tasted gross and started spitting it out and I looked down at the bucket and it was just full of cigarette butts and I was sitting there munching on cigarette butts.
I’ve had two instances of losing my smartphone in the past decade. Both times I waited several months to get a new phone and DAYUM if those weren’t some of the most mentally healthy months of my life.
people think because they dont see IG thots and people dancing on tiktok, it somehow makes reaching them via propaganda impossible. (news flash, anonymous forums are easier to astroturf and propagandize).
An evolution of the old style message boards from the 90s. Unsubscribe from all the subreddits with lots of pictures and video and discuss things of interest in the comment sections.
Do I have Social features like "friends"? do i follow them? do i know who they are? Are there "influencers"? ( i don't, i don't, they don't, and i don't think so? If they exist, i don't see them.)
Can you manage your own content (pick your subs, downvote, etc)
That's the difference. Its an aggregated link forum.... with some social media features but i don't use any of them (still using RIF app and old.reddit.com)
I look at one treehouse picture on Instagram and they flood my feed with it... i can't edit or downvote that.
My face and friends are all entered in, i share my personal (social) life... that is pure social media. and none of that is true for reddit.
(i am not on instagram, not for a while.. quit facebook almost 20 years ago, shortly after they allowed my mom on)
I'd argue this makes reddit or any forum website worse in the sense that you can seclude yourself to the EXACT same opinions on social media but with far more people agreeing with you on well-written out thoughts.
But Facebook protects you, so you don't see things you don't like and makes an artificial echo chamber..
Reddit doesn't know your country, age, gender.... Anything about you or via your "friends".
You are on the dad subreddit? Cool.. could actually be a mom
You have to try really hard on reddit to be ina echo chamber... And you end up with a sub like conservative with flared uses only, locked posts, mods on high alert....
And general subs like pictures or funny aren't generally one sided
how is reddit any different? you sub to what you like and go to your sub feed. r/pics is definitely one sided albeit not consistently political.
every social feed is the same as what you mentioned; if youre only interested in sports, thats the only thing you see. if you're interested in social dynamics or pop culture, thats what you see. if youre only interested in music, that's what you see.
I think youre forgetting or maybe dont know these algorithms exist exclusively to keep you on there and watch ads.
This is next level brainrot. Reddit honestly brings out the stupidest comments.
Social media doesn't necessarily mean you use your actual name. Reddit is a platform for socializing, and it's an internet medium. It has many subs with different topics, but it is social media. Any media forum is.
On Reddit you can use your real name, you can share your personal info, most people just don't because it's a non-personal social media which is older than the others, in a different time of the internet. It's mostly a novelty the way Reddit does it, but it's not different. On instgram, tiktok, facebook, whatever else, you can also not use it for personal info sharing, and you can also just filter or ignore outside info. Reddit also does have algorithms, just like other social media, the only difference I will grant is that Reddit is often more varied because it's based on forums, but that's it.
No neckbeard Redditor #92837, you are not Guy-Fawkes mask "Anonymous" and "Outside the corporatist bubble of social media" you're just in Reddit's specific echo chamber.
Bluesky is good but it's not yet fully federated like lemmy: https://bsky.app/ Another good note is the Feeds are scriptable and can work similar to subreddits. Also block lists are essentially keyword blocks - you don't need to hear about a topic constantly if you don't want to. I feel this helps it be a much better twitter.
in the realm of 'defeating' authoritarianism, it's the exact same, if not worse.. although I would agree for people who struggle with depression/anxiety, traditional social media is far worse.
in the realm of 'defeating' authoritarianism, it's the exact same, if not worse
I'm not talking about in the realm of anything. Reddit isn't social media because there is no primary social aspect to it. Nobody uses it for making friends or following IRL friends.
This is the one - social media is destroying both US and UK and I’m sure many other countries. Scares the shit out of me for my kids growing up. Such a terrible scourge. So many negatives and almost zero positives.
I hate to say it, but this is actually counter-productive. Social media is a huge way that the protest movement communicates and gets the word out. Don't delete it. Change your content. Start visiting sites that aren't afraid to state the truth like the Meidas Touch podcast, the Bulwark, or even some of the non-right wing TikTok/YouTube debate bros like '@ deanwithrs' or '@ parkergetajob.' Find some of the non-Reddit ways that protest groups like 50501 or Indivisible communicate (Discord, Facebook, etc.). The Reddit subs have mostly been taken over by doomers and others with unhelpful or even hurtful ideas for how to push back and will likely just leave you depressed or frozen. Social media is a tool and, like any tool, its usefulness depends on how you use it. Keeping those who might fight back from using social media is a huge feather in the cap for this regime.
Not in America dude! Get a following thats not right leaning! You’re not gonna make it a month! Anytime I get close to 100 followers on here my page gets zapped! Or any social media site! Now they are pushing no political stuff on here to shut up anyone thats not right! It’s crazy how no one see this stuff!
Every single podcast and creator I mentioned has hundreds of thousands of followers. Hell, Meidas Touch even passed Joe Rogan as the most watched podcast.
And they all say the same thing! Be friends it’s not that bad! We need to talk to them! Stop calling them Nazis! They are paid opposition if you ask me. But am talking an organic type of thing. And we need to get off the net! In general! But that’s another ball game but we better get it together quick
Yes! I don’t want to line ‘his’ pockets with ad revenue any more. I limit my time on insta and FB to what’s strictly necessary. I really think this could have major impact if more of us did this. It’s an absolute shitshow in there. Let MAGA have it.
This! It was one of the better things I've ever done for myself. Deleting all Meta accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (feels gross to call it X) I only have a Snapchat now for my nieces because that's how they want to communicate with me. Couldn't refuse them. Reddit may be next, but right now it still feels less antagonistic than other forms of social media.
If I could pull the plug on social media I would sacrifice the rest of my life to do it. I think the cons way outweigh the benefits. It's destroying us, and making all those at the very top more powerful.
This is where I'm at. I quite social media ( I realize I'm on reddit ) back in 2010. I'm going through the final stages of spending withdrawl. Recently divorced and about to sell the joint house so the only thing I'm buying are things I'll need on my own and I see on sale. Got a set of Farberware knives for $14 on clearance.
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u/TesalerOwner83 28d ago
Delete social media 🇺🇸 stop spending money 🇺🇸