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- i hate twitter.
- i hate mastodon (the platform) slightly less, mostly because it isn't a corporate, algorithms, engagements hellhole.
- i can't really leave either, because as frustrating as it is, it's still the only way i have to follow certain people and see what's up.
- it's also much easier to vomit feelings here (even if it doesn't do anything useful) than it is to bundle them up elsewhere (e.g. a journal).
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twitter and social media in general are awful things and i simultaneously love and hate it. i love it because i've met a lot of cool people. i hate it because it's just. terrible. for human health and otherwise.
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i feel like i'm just running around in the same circle as ever (i've already written more than one journal entry on this topic) but it's so difficult. everything about social media is designed to turn human interaction into this horrible shitty feedback loop of interactions leading to this awful temporary happiness
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here's a horrifying thought: when are we going to get to the point where The Algorithms invent likes from your friends. or just invent new friends for you.
you know someone's working on this.
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i guess another way to put it is:
social media is fine for "what are you doing". telling people what's up, the trivialities and banalities of life.
it is absolutely horrible for anything beyond that sort of light fluff. anything more serious than "im on the pooper :turd:". anything that takes actual meaningful interactions.
and yet we've mostly replaced everything with it.
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@Xkeeper I haven't yet figured out the line of what is good to post to Jul rather than here, so I haven't posted a lot there.
I assume you're referring to the like/viral stuff with "temporary happiness". Maybe this is semantic garbage, but I don't think there's any permanent happiness. Instead, any prolonged happiness becomes an increased mood. Maybe the word is just being used to describe two different things? I don't know
I think I'll save some of this for Jul, where I have the room
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@BatElite temporary happiness is just the super-fleeting thing of having your shit get liked or favorited. it's that vapid "someone looked at it" thing
it's not in and of itself bad, but it's become a replacement for actual feelings and thoughts and communication
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@BatElite post everything. always. just postpostpost