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| The type of shitty ass comments you'll get on each socmed: | The type of shitty ass comments you'll get on each socmed: |
| * **Mastodon/fedi**: Middle class white nerds, often men who work in tech, and are ignorant of working conditions of every single other person but themselves. Who knows how they even found your post??? They will talk down to you and act like you're stupid about any topic you talk about. They will probably tell you to use FOSS shit when the conversation is not even about that. They will not read your original post, and respond to it to say something about themselves. //Verdict:// use the mute button to allow them to talk to themselves, or block if they're particularly annoying, or block their whole server if the whole server and friend group seems to be annoying. I do like the nuclear "block server" option on fedi very much. | * **Mastodon/fedi**: Middle class white nerds, often men who work in tech, and are ignorant of working conditions of every single other person but themselves. Who knows how they even found your post??? They will talk down to you and act like you're stupid about any topic you talk about. They will probably tell you to use FOSS shit when the conversation is not even about that. They will not read your original post, and respond to it to say something about themselves. |
| * **Twitter**: The bottom-feeding coprophiliac scum of the pond. Racists, transphobes, homophobes, sexists, anti semites, conspiracy theory podcasters, self-professed "leftists" that still want a police state, the works. The QRT function seems to exist solely to enable dogpiles. //Verdict: //Don't even use this site dawg. Please use anything else, even Bluesky. | |
| * **Bluesky**: Twitter-lite, because it doesn't yet have the critical mass of Twitter, but everyone moved over from twitter. The block function removes QRT-ers and stupid commentors from your replies and from other people seeing them, which is fine. But the very public nature of all your information, including your follows, followers, and blocklists, seems to actively enable stalkers and dogpiles as well. Yeah the blocklists allows you to block "a bunch of racists" at once, but they also allow other people to make lists of "a bunch of wokelets I don't like and you should call them predators". They don't allow you to make private posts either :P the "protected logged-in only" option is totally visible if you just copy/paste the link in Discord! //Verdict: // At least it's not twitter. I'm glad to just be crossposting my public posts from fedi and not actively on there. Maybe a twitter and twitter-lite NEEDS to exist as containment. | //Verdict:// use the mute button to allow them to talk to themselves, or block if they're particularly annoying, or block their whole server if the whole server and friend group seems to be annoying. I do like the nuclear "block server" option on fedi very much. |
| * **Instagram**: I've gotten the most insipid "uhhhh stop posting gay stuff" comments from Instagram, or people being like "i saw this from the explore page randomly and I hate you for putting this on my timeline". Ok. Everything is so algorithm-brained, not even your own friends will see your posts, but somehow random strangers who hate you will see it. //Verdict:// There is an option to restrict all comments on even public posts to followers-only, which I wish other socmeds had! But I feel like doing that tanked the visibility of my posts to my followers LMAO. I'm only on here cuz local artists and events are ONLY on here. | * **Twitter**: The bottom-feeding coprophiliac scum of the pond. Racists, transphobes, homophobes, sexists, anti semites, conspiracy theory podcasters, self-professed "leftists" that still want a police state, the works. The QRT function seems to exist solely to enable dogpiles. |
| * **Tiktok**: These is probably even worse than Instagram, and that's why I'm not on here. The algorithm viral-ness level is very high, which gets artists addicted to gambling on the gacha machine of mass comments by making mind-numbing videos like "POV you can't draw hands" or "Top 10 tricks to work the algorithm" or something. And the comments I see on other artists' videos are just awful. It's people complaining about the way you drew a cartoon character, accusing you of IRL crimes because you said you like toast, starting 50-comment long threads with their own friends, and dogpiles of course. All that and you have to work a 2nd job making video shorts! Wow! What a deal. //Verdict:// Sorry I'm never using this even if it increases my engagement by 10000% and drives sales by 10000% because I don't want to advertise/cater to gacha-brained children and boomers. | |
| * **Tumblr**: You can't talk about shitty comments without talking about Tumblr. This is the home of "[[https://www.tumblr.com/poupon/36756167899/drakensberg-the-reading-comprehension-and|piss on the poor]]", where I feel like I can trace the origin so much shitty behavior like "not reading the original post" or "accusing people of IRL crimes because you said you like toast". It's not just fandom-flavored stuff too, though the anon asks suibaiting you because you ship Spongebob x Squidward are an eternal part of the site culture. Tumblr is still a huge hangout for TERVes((Transgender Exclusive Radical Vagina-focused-feminists)), and they go on mass-report sessions on random trans people, just like the dickhead shippers that mass-report people for shipping Caillou x Thomas the Tank Engine. People get banned for absolutely no reason just because of mass-reports, with no ability to appeal, because nobody works on the site because Matt Mullenburg((the dude who owns Tumblr now, who also owns Wordpress)) is constantly crashing out on main and ranting about how he hates wokelets and uhhh people who use his software?? //Verdict:// I have 10+ years of tagged art and writing on here, and I really need to re-export all of it and make a -booru to re-upload my art with sufficient tags lmao. I don't even talk to people on here anymore, I'm just still on here because it's good for mid-length blogging with insertable images and an easy lazy text editor, AND searchable tags with 10+ years of art and text to read from other people. Dreamwidth's text editor makes me want to type on another software or site, which makes me not use Dreamwidth, and the image uploading is never going to be up to my standards because the site was meant for writers. And microblogging on fedi/masto is just.. well, microblogging. | //Verdict: //Don't even use this site dawg. Please use anything else, even Bluesky. |
| | * **Bluesky**: Twitter-lite, because it doesn't yet have the critical mass of Twitter, but everyone moved over from twitter. The block function removes QRT-ers and stupid commentors from your replies and from other people seeing them, which is fine. But the very public nature of all your information, including your follows, followers, and blocklists, seems to actively enable stalkers and dogpiles as well. Yeah the blocklists allows you to block "a bunch of racists" at once, but they also allow other people to make lists of "a bunch of wokelets I don't like and you should call them predators". They don't allow you to make private posts either :P the "protected logged-in only" option is totally visible if you just copy/paste the link in Discord! |
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| | //Verdict: // At least it's not twitter. I'm glad to just be crossposting my public posts from fedi and not actively on there. Maybe a twitter and twitter-lite NEEDS to exist as containment. |
| | * **Instagram**: I've gotten the most insipid "uhhhh stop posting gay stuff" comments from Instagram, or people being like "i saw this from the explore page randomly and I hate you for putting this on my timeline". Ok. Everything is so algorithm-brained, not even your own friends will see your posts, but somehow random strangers who hate you will see it. |
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| | //Verdict:// There is an option to restrict all comments on even public posts to followers-only, which I wish other socmeds had! But I feel like doing that tanked the visibility of my posts to my followers LMAO. I'm only on here cuz local artists and events are ONLY on here. |
| | * **Tiktok**: These is probably even worse than Instagram, and that's why I'm not on here. The algorithm viral-ness level is very high, which gets artists addicted to gambling on the gacha machine of mass comments by making mind-numbing videos like "POV you can't draw hands" or "Top 10 tricks to work the algorithm" or something. And the comments I see on other artists' videos are just awful. It's people complaining about the way you drew a cartoon character, accusing you of IRL crimes because you said you like toast, starting 50-comment long threads with their own friends, and dogpiles of course. All that and you have to work a 2nd job making video shorts! Wow! What a deal. |
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| | //Verdict:// Sorry I'm never using this even if it increases my engagement by 10000% and drives sales by 10000% because I don't want to advertise/cater to gacha-brained children and boomers. |
| | * **Tumblr**: You can't talk about shitty comments without talking about Tumblr. This is the home of "[[https://www.tumblr.com/poupon/36756167899/drakensberg-the-reading-comprehension-and|piss on the poor]]", where I feel like I can trace the origin so much shitty behavior like "not reading the original post" or "accusing people of IRL crimes because you said you like toast". It's not just fandom-flavored stuff too, though the anon asks suibaiting you because you ship Spongebob x Squidward are an eternal part of the site culture. Tumblr is still a huge hangout for TERVes((Transgender Exclusive Radical Vagina-focused-feminists)), and they go on mass-report sessions on random trans people, just like the dickhead shippers that mass-report people for shipping Caillou x Thomas the Tank Engine. People get banned for absolutely no reason just because of mass-reports, with no ability to appeal, because nobody works on the site because Matt Mullenburg((the dude who owns Tumblr now, who also owns Wordpress)) is constantly crashing out on main and ranting about how he hates wokelets and uhhh people who use his software?? |
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| | //Verdict:// I have 10+ years of tagged art and writing on here, and I really need to re-export all of it and make a -booru to re-upload my art with sufficient tags lmao. I don't even talk to people on here anymore, I'm just still on here because it's good for mid-length blogging with insertable images and an easy lazy text editor, AND searchable tags with 10+ years of art and text to read from other people. Dreamwidth's text editor makes me want to type on another software or site, which makes me not use Dreamwidth, and the image uploading is never going to be up to my standards because the site was meant for writers. And microblogging on fedi/masto is just.. well, microblogging. |
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| All this complaining, but I feel a little better having done a hashtag vent I guess? At least I can post female presenting nipples on my fedi server, and not have to censor the word MURDER or SUICIDE or GENOCIDE. Whereas almost every other social media bans boobs and saying certain words. Yeah the UK child safety age verification act is coming for us all... I'm still interested to see how [[https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1548205|Newground's compliance methods]] will work out. They're a small indie site that runs at a loss and can't afford the facial scan ID shit, and KNOW that face scan ID doxxing shit is stupid. So they're doing a verifications via a small purchase. | All this complaining, but I feel a little better having done a hashtag vent I guess? At least I can post female presenting nipples on my fedi server, and not have to censor the word MURDER or SUICIDE or GENOCIDE. Whereas almost every other social media bans boobs and saying certain words. Yeah the UK child safety age verification act is coming for us all... I'm still interested to see how [[https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1548205|Newground's compliance methods]] will work out. They're a small indie site that runs at a loss and can't afford the facial scan ID shit, and KNOW that face scan ID doxxing shit is stupid. So they're doing a verifications via a small purchase. |
