I'm only here on substack, and I check my emails once a day and I have 49 people on Facebook who are all older friends and family and I'm under a false name there.
Winning.
Chugging sludge is still chugging sludge. You are so right. It better to just go to parties and talk to the weirdos that wind up hanging out in the kitchen. That's where you will find me.
Your right about the crystals bro. It's all crystals all ready don't you realize!
I guess I'm glad in a way that I can't get on Threads right now (Instagram issue due to multiple businesses and accounts). I would certainly leverage the wild west to grow my substack presence, and that might work really well, but the mental health trade off is probably not worth it.
I only passively use Instagram and Reddit at this point, and both are highly curated. I like Notes because the vibes are chill and everyone is bound by a common interest. I've also made very liberal use of the block button to removed the culture war freaks who compare vax mandates to the literal Holocaust.
I love it. And, I agree: Notes is very good right now because of the common interest, and maybe also because of the general intelligence requirement. It's still a pretty low hurdle here, but at least there is a hurdle.
I think the subscription model helps too. I would love for Substack to grow and develop into a fusion of early Instagram and LinkedIn (just the job section but for creators) in addition to the microblogging, podcast, and newsletter features it already has, and maybe with different tiers of subscription features.
Perhaps Notes and shorter form content (like images) could also be monetized, a la Jaron Lanier's vision of the future of the Internet. He lays this out in "Who Owns the Future." It's pretty good, if a little deep in the weeds for a popular audience.
I saw something this morning announcing that Elon “launches new AI company, xAI” and would be hosting a discussion about it tomorrow on Twitter. It felt very much like I was watching bullies on a playground. One swings and then the other swings... and the world keeps turning.
Mistake #1: getting back on FB last fall, because 95% of my HS son's soccer team activity was on there. That page was cool; the rest of it was a great reminder that a LOT of people I grew up with have decided to vie for the "worst person you know" trophy.
Mistake #2: Doing the same thing not too long ago ahead of my HS reunion. We're old, so of course (!) everything would be hosted on an FB page.
No thanks.
As for twitter, for all it's faults, I still love it. I'm clinging to memories of something that no longer exists, and there's some "guys, I can fix her" energy there, but still... Mostly, I miss being able to get soccer scores, kibbutz with other music nerds, and get the odd tornado warning in the same place.
As for the cats & dogs (Post, Trebel, Mastodon, etc): Hard pass.
Threads was too easy not to sign up, and like a lot of things that'll happen at that reunion, it's something I almost immediately regretted. There's a few familiar faces on there, but mostly it's companies like DoorDash trying to convince me they're cool.
Tl; Dr: I love Notes for a lot of different reasons.
I don't even remember the last time I posted on Facebook, but once in a while, I cave to my morbid curiosity, because I am genuinely curious if late-20s/early-30s people would even post on there still, and what they would even post. It's mostly people I knew from undergrad reposting generic adulting content from their Instagram or people I knew from high school who never left Connecticut either going full chud or being basic New Englanders.
How you feel about Twitter is how I feel about Instagram. Meta ruined what was originally great about the app, but I still passively use it because I'll get glimmers of what made it great.
What is this mythical full compliment of possibilities possessed by Twitter, and its 330 million users? (Being around 4 percent of the people in the world)
I am saying this as someone who has tried to get into Twitter twice and found it unbearable, but its appeal lies in being "in the know," having a news RSS feed, the chance to talk to celebrities and influential people, and having a wide range of tastes, communities, cultures, etc. all housed under one site. It's basically a giant house party and you can sift through rooms and crowds and figure out what is and isn't for you.
Being power and fame adjacent is illusory, at best. On the rare occasion those people respond to a mortal, what a lame achievement.
The town square was a myth, still is.
Instagram has 1 6 billion active users. That's what people want, that's where they get their dose of fame adjacent, or nurture influencer aspirations. That's where the collective is meeting up.
TikTok has a billion users.
There are 2.7 billion YouTube users .
Reddit has 1.6 billion monthly users.
Facebook still has 2.9 billion monthly users.
Twitter? Only influential or relevant in the minds of the tiny number of people using it. Everyone else is somewhere other than Twitter.
Totally agree. I don't buy into the premise of Twitter's brand promise, but that illusion is why people are there and I am not lol. It is a "digital town square" to a niche group of media elites and politics junkies, for whatever that's worth. Only 10% of Americans use Twitter, but 99% of journalists are addicted to it.
The legacy media obsession with Twitter has always been a bit embarrassing. Turned out that journalists aren't serious people.
Threads? Who knows. Meta has been smart to leverage Instagram, a vast and instant user base, but Threads isn't the great new future. It's just a new thing. Elon is pissed off. I guess that alone is worth the price of admission.
The true success of Threads will be if millions people are still using it, even if the app fails to kill Twitter and/or dunk on Elon Musk. My guess is that it's just a fad because people want to own Elon, which is sad that people are flocking to Zuck to do so.
I'm only here on substack, and I check my emails once a day and I have 49 people on Facebook who are all older friends and family and I'm under a false name there.
Winning.
Chugging sludge is still chugging sludge. You are so right. It better to just go to parties and talk to the weirdos that wind up hanging out in the kitchen. That's where you will find me.
Your right about the crystals bro. It's all crystals all ready don't you realize!
What is a silicon chip!
Crystals!!
You break Twitter and an the pressure release valve is redirected towards actual protest. Elites can't have that!
I see how it is! These social media sites contain the fury of the revolution.
Padded echo chambers of virtual soma.
Like those fake offices you can pay to smash up so you don't smash up your own one.
Zuck tried to get us into the virtual pods but it was too soon!
Twitter is the tech equivalent of letting the serfs scream at the castle wall
I guess I'm glad in a way that I can't get on Threads right now (Instagram issue due to multiple businesses and accounts). I would certainly leverage the wild west to grow my substack presence, and that might work really well, but the mental health trade off is probably not worth it.
I only passively use Instagram and Reddit at this point, and both are highly curated. I like Notes because the vibes are chill and everyone is bound by a common interest. I've also made very liberal use of the block button to removed the culture war freaks who compare vax mandates to the literal Holocaust.
I love it. And, I agree: Notes is very good right now because of the common interest, and maybe also because of the general intelligence requirement. It's still a pretty low hurdle here, but at least there is a hurdle.
I think the subscription model helps too. I would love for Substack to grow and develop into a fusion of early Instagram and LinkedIn (just the job section but for creators) in addition to the microblogging, podcast, and newsletter features it already has, and maybe with different tiers of subscription features.
Perhaps Notes and shorter form content (like images) could also be monetized, a la Jaron Lanier's vision of the future of the Internet. He lays this out in "Who Owns the Future." It's pretty good, if a little deep in the weeds for a popular audience.
I saw something this morning announcing that Elon “launches new AI company, xAI” and would be hosting a discussion about it tomorrow on Twitter. It felt very much like I was watching bullies on a playground. One swings and then the other swings... and the world keeps turning.
Exactly. The proposed cage match between Elon and Zuck is very poignant in its stupidity
But would Keanu Reeves showing up at your house, throwing your phone in a lake, and giving you a hug and a cup of tea scale?
We will have to use AI to create his likeness and replicate it millions of times and then sync it with the Apple Vision Pro
Mistake #1: getting back on FB last fall, because 95% of my HS son's soccer team activity was on there. That page was cool; the rest of it was a great reminder that a LOT of people I grew up with have decided to vie for the "worst person you know" trophy.
Mistake #2: Doing the same thing not too long ago ahead of my HS reunion. We're old, so of course (!) everything would be hosted on an FB page.
No thanks.
As for twitter, for all it's faults, I still love it. I'm clinging to memories of something that no longer exists, and there's some "guys, I can fix her" energy there, but still... Mostly, I miss being able to get soccer scores, kibbutz with other music nerds, and get the odd tornado warning in the same place.
As for the cats & dogs (Post, Trebel, Mastodon, etc): Hard pass.
Threads was too easy not to sign up, and like a lot of things that'll happen at that reunion, it's something I almost immediately regretted. There's a few familiar faces on there, but mostly it's companies like DoorDash trying to convince me they're cool.
Tl; Dr: I love Notes for a lot of different reasons.
I don't even remember the last time I posted on Facebook, but once in a while, I cave to my morbid curiosity, because I am genuinely curious if late-20s/early-30s people would even post on there still, and what they would even post. It's mostly people I knew from undergrad reposting generic adulting content from their Instagram or people I knew from high school who never left Connecticut either going full chud or being basic New Englanders.
How you feel about Twitter is how I feel about Instagram. Meta ruined what was originally great about the app, but I still passively use it because I'll get glimmers of what made it great.
What is this mythical full compliment of possibilities possessed by Twitter, and its 330 million users? (Being around 4 percent of the people in the world)
I am saying this as someone who has tried to get into Twitter twice and found it unbearable, but its appeal lies in being "in the know," having a news RSS feed, the chance to talk to celebrities and influential people, and having a wide range of tastes, communities, cultures, etc. all housed under one site. It's basically a giant house party and you can sift through rooms and crowds and figure out what is and isn't for you.
Being power and fame adjacent is illusory, at best. On the rare occasion those people respond to a mortal, what a lame achievement.
The town square was a myth, still is.
Instagram has 1 6 billion active users. That's what people want, that's where they get their dose of fame adjacent, or nurture influencer aspirations. That's where the collective is meeting up.
TikTok has a billion users.
There are 2.7 billion YouTube users .
Reddit has 1.6 billion monthly users.
Facebook still has 2.9 billion monthly users.
Twitter? Only influential or relevant in the minds of the tiny number of people using it. Everyone else is somewhere other than Twitter.
There’s pick your poison and then there’s actively choosing to inject yourself with rabies lol
Totally agree. I don't buy into the premise of Twitter's brand promise, but that illusion is why people are there and I am not lol. It is a "digital town square" to a niche group of media elites and politics junkies, for whatever that's worth. Only 10% of Americans use Twitter, but 99% of journalists are addicted to it.
The legacy media obsession with Twitter has always been a bit embarrassing. Turned out that journalists aren't serious people.
Threads? Who knows. Meta has been smart to leverage Instagram, a vast and instant user base, but Threads isn't the great new future. It's just a new thing. Elon is pissed off. I guess that alone is worth the price of admission.
The true success of Threads will be if millions people are still using it, even if the app fails to kill Twitter and/or dunk on Elon Musk. My guess is that it's just a fad because people want to own Elon, which is sad that people are flocking to Zuck to do so.
Life is riddled with pick your poison moments, albeit, not usually pick your billionaire.
The success of Threads will merely be overtaking Twitter user numbers, it's not a high bar.
No one has to kill Twitter. As soon as Elon took over, the phone call was coming from inside the house.
Can you name a social media platform that isn’t? I see it is simply levels of stupidity…..