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 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.
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
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 never understood the appeal of Tik Tok. I hated it the second it came out. What’s the point of watching a 15-second vid of someone lip-syncing to a song?! I don’t get the appeal.
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
Lemmy is quickly becoming the same way. People have started entire threads in different forums to try to get me banned from Lemmy, just because they don’t agree with me. Rather than just be mad at me and block me, they legit go to other threads, and even call out admins, in an effort to get me banned from every instance.
All because I didn’t vote the way they wanted me! lolol
I still prefer Lemmy to Reddit though!
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.
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.
There are some true believers, but everyone else is posting with a gun named poverty pointing at the back of their heads. Don’t forget to smile while you suffer!
I came in to comment about Truth Social or voat when it was active. You’ve convinced me I’m wrong because many people are forced to use LinkedIn. No consent given. That’s the winning quality in this competition.
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.
LinkedIn.
Imagine Twitter and Facebook teaming up for a Dragon Ball style fusion, turning into this cringe fake business guru with a Ghibli style profile picture, spitting out AI generated posts and running impression based non-sense polls.
I agree that the linkedin culture is really bad, but the algorithm itself isn’t too horrible compared to facebook/Instagram.
I never understood the attraction to linkedin.
I want social media social for shits and giggled and entertainment. Work related networking is neither.
It’s like having a beer with coworkers instead of going out with friends. Hard pass.
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.
Whatsapp, reddit and youtube.
The rest I can do without.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
I hate them all so much the last one I used and made an account for was Facebook, and that account has stayed entirely unused for about a decade. I can only handle so much stupidity at a time and I hate being disappointed by my friends’ uncooked, ignorant opinions so I’d rather be blind and deaf to what they do and say online, I just judge them for what they say and do to me directly…
I don’t think Reddit counts as ‘social media’, it’s a message board, a place for pseudonymous debate, but not what I would consider a social media site.
X, for all the reasons.
Seen Kyle? Have you seen Kyle?
With the plant?
