[ SECRET POST #5589 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5589 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe I'm going to have to figure out how fucking Discord works

Fuck Discord, man

[(Anonymous)]

It is easy. Just chat rooms.

[(Anonymous)]

it's like 5 million different chat rooms and you have to find the link on a different social media site to get into the chatroom. like it's some fucking social media scavenger hunt. i just want to go to a website.

[(Anonymous)]

So reddit?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but unlike Reddit I don't want it to completely suck ass

if the problem with Twitter is that Elon Musk bought it, I'm not gonna go to Elon Musk Fanboy Central, am i

[(Anonymous)]

You're kinda already posting on a website set up for recording thoughts and allowing comments, y'know.

[(Anonymous)]

What I am looking for when I socialize on the Internet is a place where there are people who I find interesting and smart, who share similar interests and outlooks to me, and who don't completely suck; and a format that allows me to easily find what these people have to say and talk to them, without having to deal with a bunch of bullshit or a bunch of people who suck ass.

Twitter worked for me because it collected a wide assortment of people with a huge range of interests, many of whom were interesting and smart, and it was relatively easy to identify and follow interesting smart people, since their posts would be shared widely, and since communities of interest tended to form organically. Its posting and thread architecture made it easy to read what these people had to say, and to follow specific conversation they were having. And it provided a wide range of tools for organizing content and avoiding content I disliked. So I had my main timeline where I could talk to many people who I enjoyed talking to and found smart. I had lists where I could see people talking about specific interests and fandoms and things like that. And I could easily block people and mute words so I didn't have to see a bunch of dumb annoying losers.

As far as I'm aware, most other websites fail in at least one of these regards. For instance, Dreamwidth falls down on the grounds that it has a very, very small user base and it is generally extremely difficult to find other users with interesting, novel content. Reddit fails in the respect that a lot of its users are totally uninteresting; that it is relatively difficult to filter out uninteresting or shitty users; and that the architecture of conversations makes it harder to find really in-depth, meaty, lengthy back-and-forths, and also makes conversations and interactions narrower in scope. Discord is probably the best of these options, since it seems to be where the most interesting and smart people are at the moment and because it allows for wide-ranging conversations while still providing some tools to avoid dealing with losers (although as far as I understand it operates more at a community level on Discord, rather than an individual level), but it's still sub-optimal because you have to do a lot of scavenger hunt crap to find the good conversations and servers, rather than being centralized and making it easy to organically find people. And it just seems like such a shitty experience, like trying to suss out where all the cool kids are. But it seems like it's genuinely the least bad option available.

I hope that this post helps explain where I'm coming from, and why sites like Reddit and Dreamwidth are not necessarily perfect replacements for Twitter.

[(Anonymous)]

I could have written all of this in my sleep, except for the fact that finding cool people on Twitter nowadays is like... eh. Discord... isn't that where 12 year olds and Gamerz gather?

My top spot lately has been a few online forums on hyperfixations of mine 1st and Reddit 2nd which is basically "a lot of online forums on my hyperfixations but badly organized" . Just like any popular website of nowadays, many people suck - not all and I can block those that suck. It works?

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

Discord... isn't that where 12 year olds and Gamerz gather?

You know, neither group has cooties. And no, they're not the only ones who hang out on Discord. Even so, there's no guarantee you'll find the people you want to find.