Why isn’t anyone talking about this? It looks like Meta wants to compete with Twitter with a new Instagram microblogging app which will probably be compatible with Mastodon

Key Point of the article:

*“Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.” *

The Verge - This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

  • @zekiz
    3•11 months ago

    I actually can’t tell if you’re serious or not. But since it’s actually pretty fun to argue here are my points:

    Baka is Japanese word for R word

    No its not. Are you thinking that because of r/OkBuddyRetard? Baka is a way to say “idiot” and in this context it’s there to make fun of a pretty common character type in anime called the “tsundere”.

    MK brings *masterrace crowd with it.

    It absolutely doesn’t. It’s one of the most accepting and beginner friendly subs I know (maybe besides the 3D printing subs). Nobody is gatekeeping and when somebody does, they get downvoted into oblivion.

    You want those things?

    You’re asking me if I want an anime shitposting sub making self councous fun of Anime while loving it that allinges pretty much perfectly with my ideological and political views and one of the kindes and most helpful communities I know? ABSOLUTELY!

    You think the average redditor is the same as the more polarised internet anarchist/communist? There is a difference between the mindset of a Cheetos chugging Discord mod teenager in front of their RGB gaming PC, and someone who is a nerd sitting around either managing hoarded data or reencoding media or studying.

    I never said something different. Yes a lot of people will also mean a lot of people I don’t want to interact with but that’s just the necessary evil for it not to become a shitty unironical circlejerk like r/GamingCirclejerk where I have the feeling that they unironically hate gamers and games. It’s a sub purely for shitting on other people. Same thing with r/facepalm

    A lot of people also means a lot of good content. Some subs collapse and go to shit when they are growing but others will be better.

    Not very helpful unless you want Lemmy to become another Reddit.

    That’s what I’m saying. I want it to be like reddit but better. I want it to be a reddit with actual free speech.

    I will tell you this, a lot of reddit is made up of many elements, like TwoXXChromosomes, FDR (now this femcel sub is purged), once even JB used to exist, now you can go look at all the “russian=orc” Nazism that western users love to circlejerk about.

    I know about this. You could just… not browse them. They are on the startpage but that doesn’t mean they’re good or what I want.

    That crap will seep in. I am sure all the Sinophobia and Russophobia is abundant in those niche subs you think are worth their value in comedy.

    Yeah no, absolutely not. These subs are against this kind of content and are actively making fun of it.

    • @TheAnonymouseJoker
      -1•11 months ago

      Are you thinking that because of r/OkBuddyRetard? Baka is a way to say “idiot”

      Baka is a coverup word for all the people who know this word from anime. Alternate subreddits are always formed this way. I watch enough anime to know weaboos like the back of my hand.

      You’re asking me if I want

      You ignored the one zillion things I mentioned about what majority of content is, and that everything is a package. Society cannot be restructured in a cherry picking manner. People talk shit and they will always talk shit.

      I want it to be like reddit but better. I want it to be a reddit with actual free speech.

      There is no free speech. Mastodon instances have openly stated this for years. Same goes for Lemmy. Also, watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdACDcDkTI

      twoxx FDR

      I know about this. You could just… not browse them. They are on the startpage but that doesn’t mean they’re good or what I want.

      Humans are social animals. They love the social drama. They love negativity even more. These are simple dynamics based on how social media in general works today, and also based upon hundreds of years of observations. Default and popular content takes over everything, no matter how good something else may be. And often the default content happens to be vicious or dramatic or negative vortex of some kind.

      I have seen reddit for many years, as well as internet platforms and forums. Utopia is enticing to imagine but is not possible. And striving for it comes with inherent risks that are sometimes not worth it. Internet is like a village, and tinier groups migrate together anywhere, not individually.

      • @zekiz
        1•11 months ago

        Baka is a coverup word for all the people who know this word from anime. Alternate subreddits are always formed this way.

        Yeah basically.

        You ignored the one zillion things I mentioned about what majority of content is, and that everything is a package. Society cannot be restructured in a cherry picking manner

        That isn’t my goal. I don’t want to “rebuild society”. But I can cerry pick what I want to see. I can cherry pick with which people I want to argue and with which people I want to hang out and chat. That’s not only the case online but in person too.

        You’re right. I cannot rebuild society. But I can cherry pick my local community. I can choose my friends.

        There is no free speech. Mastodon instances have openly stated this for years. Same goes for Lemmy. Also, watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdACDcDkTI

        I worded it poorly by not defining free speech. Sure there have to be certain boundaries but most of the time these boundaries are arbitrary. That’s also what’s mentioned in the video you linked. I want that you can choose what you want and what not. Reddit is pretty liberal in most cases and only occasionally banns users but in recent times I have the feeling that they ban more and more users for more trivial reasons. Probably because they want to sell.

        I also don’t think that saying words like the N-Word or the R-Word is always bad. What if I’m just citing someone or saying a title or sing lyrics. In these case I think it’s OK. But otherwise… eh there isn’t really another case where that would be acceptable. Even when you were “just joking around”

        I admit I was temporarily banned from reddit because of a critical joke I made (not offensive just not something you should say, even as a joke and even when it is pretty obvious that it was sarcasm/satire). It’s pretty ironic considering I ironically mocked someone who hides their true intentions behind irony. Yeah that’s pretty confusing so I understand that somebody might not get it.

        Since I soon can no longer use reddit because of their API changes I search for an alternative or maybe even a better platform.

        Also while popular content might be what is adapted, what’s popular is constantly evolving and changing.

        We obviously think completely different about social media. You think more about the impact on the whole society and I think more about the individual aspect.