Asklemmy

Instagram, maybe? I can avoid twitter, but Instagram is a different kind of pain for me. The closest alternative is fucking xiouhongshu (rednote) and that is literally Chinese

The way Reddit fosters echo-chambers probably makes it the worst in my book.

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.

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.

Twitter

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Insta is all thirst traps somehow.

You get recommended what you see. My Instagram is all photography.

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.

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.

X, for all the reasons.

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.

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.