lenderton

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by lenderton 2y ago
The blast of "For You" inauthenticity that hits a fresh X/Twitter account is about equaled by the astroturf fiesta that hits a fresh Instagram Threads account. The underlying modus operandi of the apps are the same, regardles
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by lenderton 2y ago
Google bought Blogger in 2003; that was the main blogging service for a long time in the US, at least. Google not being able to optimize search results for their own hosted content implies...a lack of overall content available. It used to
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by lenderton 2y ago
The article claims that Russians have in the past attempted to storm Ukrainian positions in "golf carts", but for clarification, the vehicles destroyed in that incident were actually Chinese-made 4-wheelers. The model is DesertCro
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by lenderton 2y ago
The "Blogosphere" represented something like Livejournal. You'd write your daily thoughts, not so much imagepost at all, and there would be your friends doing the same thing whom you'd check on. Some countries still have
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by lenderton 2y ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/teens-and-so... https://influencermarketinghub.com/discord-stats/ Average age is 16 on Discord, average time spent per day is less than 10 minu
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by lenderton 2y ago
But the problem is that they have to be hosted on the same platform, which will be set up like a social media site with curated content, otherwise you'll have to spend a lot of time finding them. Maybe you get self-hosted things via gi
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by lenderton 2y ago
I've read some A-tier libertarian noir novellas on there.
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by lenderton 2y ago
From what I can tell, highschooler and younger, there's almost a complete abandonment of mainstream social media in favor of self-curated chats like Discord, and it revolves heavily around gaming. A sort of hearkening to the AIM days,
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by lenderton 2y ago
My experience with Bluesky has been similar to my experience with other "disruptive" platforms like Cara (the anti-AI art portfolio app/site). When a "new" (usually overall non-corporate) internet space opens up tha