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I never used twitter, but even before Musk took over it was ALWAYS a fundamentally negative force. Whenever its name was cited it was some shit. People fighting and wishing each other dead.
Other social media all has that, but Twitter seems to be ONLY that
Linkedin. Its all fake shit...
Instagram/Facebook and its "Business" products. I truly believe Meta actively works on making its products as unusable as possible in a brower. As in: removing, breaking or obscuring functions that work in their apps. **This makes working as a team with different device types a massive pain in the ass. **
Don't even try to be logged out of an account and use these sites in a browser. You might as well have a 5 year old write a html page on a ducking Disney Princess Play Click & Swap Laptop that is more usable in a browser than Instagram without an account.
Twitter may be embracing fascist slop, nazi bullshit, and gorenography, but I still think Instagram is worse. It is near impossible to see what your friends are posting if they're not an overachiever meme page or a corporate entity, the fyp is like the same 5 or 4 tags of content you've liked recently, and let's not forget that they did nothing to address the hate algorithms that were exposed years ago
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 don't know which I hate the most, but since I don't use any Meta products (finally dropped Whatsapp too last March), or Twitter (which I dropped after they made BetterTweetDeck unusable even before Felon took over), or Reddit (got banned from r/worldnews, r/asmongold among others), or Snapchat (which went along with insta and Threads earlier), so basically the only social media I actively use is... Youtube? And I hate all the social media aspects in there that I cannot evade. So I guess Youtube's social media AI slop is the one I tolerate the most.
I dont even think of yt as social media but a video hosting site.
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.
Linkedin is pure business ghoul bullshit with no redeeming qualities but you're forced to have one for "networking" so I'd say that's the worst one.
Its so so creepy
I'm not sure really, all the bad things i can think of can be easily found in all of the mainstream ones. Most social media ran by right wing capitalists are bound to turn to shit i guess.
Facebook, for all that they were and all that they have become. I don't use it, won't use it, but I can't change others' behavior, and so its very existence continues to reduce my quality of life. Facebook gave us Facebook, Zuck, and eventually Meta. I do not like them, Sam I Am.
Edit: grammar
I use WhatsApp and now insta a little so Facebook is in my life but dont have Facebook itself
Insta is all thirst traps somehow.
You get recommended what you see. My Instagram is all photography.
But I watch Italian brainrot, memes, babies and sports stuff.
PS. Alex fell is a photography page on insta that I love.
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.
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.
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.
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
X, for all the reasons.
Seen Kyle? Have you seen Kyle?
With the plant?
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
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.