Following a conversation / thread is a hot mess at the best of times, it’s mostly just brain farts, and #people #write #out #things #like #this #as #some #sort #of #shitty #search #engine #optimization #because #EVERYONE #MUST #FIND #MY #BRAIN #FART #AT #ALL #COSTS .
If you have something of substance to say, just blog it or make a post on a proper platform where you can actually make your point without the reader having to put together the worst IKEA jigsaw puzzle known to humans. The technology to edit/update a post has existed forever, so it’s stupid to just keep replying to yourself as new information “breaks”.
Microblogging is dumb.
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Well, I can’t say it the opinion is popular or not, it does seem like one that’s mixed at least.
I can’t say I fully agree, because you chose to call it dumb rather than any other descriptor in the title and later on the body, but don’t support that label very well in the body of the post. It kinda makes it difficult to accept it as more than a rant, which is not really the same thing as an unpopular opinion, even when the rant is unpopular as well.
My points of digression with the concept you’re presenting are that microblogging itself isn’t the same as hashtag abuse; and that using the platforms poorly isn’t the same as the platform itself being bad.
However, microblogging absolutely does seem to draw a lot of people that use it poorly and abuse hashtags. So, while the underlying platforms aren’t “dumb”, they sure as hell look it.
I would offer the counter argument that it isn’t microblogging that’s dumb, it’s people; but microblogging shows the dumbness easier than other formats.
I would offer the counter argument that it isn’t microblogging that’s dumb, it’s people; but microblogging shows the dumbness easier than other formats.
Fair enough, yeah. It’s kinda like saying “this mirror is ugly”
I came here through the #FART hashtag.
Probably the only useful one
Don’t even get me started. People prefer it though, and it’s killed forums.
Another popular “unpopular” opinion!
Another popular “unpopular” opinion!
Yeah, maybe knock it the fuck off with the gatekeeping bullshit. I’ve seen similar from you in other posts in this community. This is your first, final, and only warning.
- Threads currently has over 200 million users.
- Twitter has 611 million monthly active users.
- Mastodon Has Reached Over 2.5 Million Monthly Active Users
- There are over 33 million Bluesky users
That’s 846.5 million people who are on some form of micro-blogging platform; almost a billion people plus or minus bots.
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We both know that this audience is not the same as the one at those places. Still, point taken, my objection here was a bit weak.
I just ran over the last 20 posts. I’d say about 4 or 5 are obviously popular opinions (eg. the one on organ donation), a bunch are blah-neutral (eg. the one on space terminology), and only about 4 or 5 are obviously unpopular (artists and AI etc). Actually, a really unpopular opinion was the one I posted - but I just noticed it broke rule #1! You should have deleted it! I’m completely serious.
You think I’m annoying with my “gatekeeping”, I get it. And yeah, you saw me doing it in !Showerthoughts, where the mods are AWOL. Eventually I gave up and left.
The reason I do it is that is that I want Lemmy to succeed. That means quality control, which means gatekeeping. It should really be done by the moderator, but in a bunch of communities the mods are completely out to lunch. You are not - so thank you. I know it’s a thankless task, as you just proved by telling me to “knock the fuck off”, which definitely breaks rule #2 (but I forgive you).
