| ▲ | balarjin 2 hours ago | |
In what sense are they shitty? They are actually usable by normal people. This is a big reason they are popular. I don't like (most of) the content on those sites. This is not surprising. The content is aimed at people who can't use Signal. Such a person is different from me in many ways. | ||
| ▲ | metabagel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Facebook is cluttered with ads and distracting posts (not from your friends and family). If you use it often enough, you probably stop seeing how terrible it is. Try looking at it with fresh eyes sometime. Twitter boosts Elon Musk and the things he is interested in. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk... I don't have specific complaints about Instagram or TikTok, other than the algorithm is controlled by oligarchs. | ||
| ▲ | pixl97 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>In what sense are they shitty? Widespread algorithmic control and corporate spam spreads architecture? >They are actually usable by normal people. Usability is just one dimension. If your site is perfectly usable, yet steals your credit card number and sells it to the highest bidder, it is still a shitty site, just not in usability. >This is a big reason they are popular. Really FB/Meta became popular long before they were at their current level of shittiness. Really FB wrote the modern book on new levels of shittiness like selling social graphs and tracking people along with connecting all kinds of other data and stealing information from your phone with overly huge permissions and data gathering. | ||