• 'Call their bluff': Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook advisor urges
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No, the thing with social media is when you shut one down the userbase splinters. When tumblr shut down some people moved to Twitter, some moved to Newgrounds, some to Pixiv, etc.. Some ditched it altogether. And not a single one of them who had a significant tumblr follower base has recovered their numbers. The same thing would happen for any other social media site. A lot of content creators use Facebook and its high integration with other sites like Instagram, and inevitably some of them will have the vast majority of their content-based income coming from it. If they get the axe, they can't just go 'oh well' and move thousands of people to their new site, a huge swathe of them just flat out won't follow.
Most likely that user base was majority bots or dead accounts. Facebook has very little actual interaction relative to follower count.
How to not get elected ever again: be the person/party responsible for cutting off access to Facebook for every single one of your constituents
inflation, vore, various types of transformation (people turning into cocks, animals, food, rubber dolls, etc). I don't look at 2 people fucking or just a normal butt unless the picture is exceptional, which it rarely is. I still like that stuff for aesethetic value and cuz its cute but that's about it.
That list isn't exclusive to twitter
Oh yeah I know, I use other websites, just twitter is one of them I can find new content/artists on p easily, so I find value in it for that .
Yeah after everyone moved over to twitter its pretty easy to find artists
Wow that's a hell of a bold call-out over a dude saying he doesn't like heteronormal porn Sorry to derail but I saw the 40 agrees and almost spat out my drink, is he a psycho now for using a site that allows porn to jack off?
you're forgetting that the social media system itself is extremely skewed AGAINST creatives in the first place; a proper alternative that can give them attention cannot coexist with giants like FB or Twitter because they favour quick & instant content that artists can't keep up with - straight up deleting access to them is a real tough break but I think it could lead to a creation of a better system
How do people not know what this is???
if there's a sign that a private company has gotten too big maybe this is it
You could equally view it through the lens of the population -- that which the government exists on behalf of -- informing their lawmakers that they don't agree with the laws that took down Facebook in this hypothetical.
I do wonder how many people actually like or trust facebook. I tried to look for some recent surveys and they don't have the best public image these days
I think it's a bit careless to ask governments for these blanket bans, when ultimately the problem lies in our nature to spread false shit and seeking drama and attention. Rather force these social medias to actually implement and follow stricter rules, try to educate people etc... than banning them outright, even if temporary. I think it's a bad practice that may set a dangerous precedence. But on the other hand maybe this is the only way that'd make these companies and its users understand the severity of the issue with unregulated social media?
It scares me that shutting down Facebook for a while is such a contentious issue, some people would argue that it's equivalent to shutting down electricity or transportation, Facebook seems to have become a public utility. It scares me that a privately run website that primarily revolves around bad memes and phone game ads has reached that status and has a certain amount of resilience to change, even in the face of the supreme court.
I think it would be easier to change a website than it would be to change human nature itself.
Big jump from "vanilla porn" to "hetronormal" there dude, chill.
People call 911 when Facebook goes down for 15 minutes. Then again, Americans also called 911 when they couldn't watch Breaking Bad because of a cable outage. But even though those two examples are of Americans, it's happened elsewhere too, so it's not a "lol 'Merica" problem as it is "jfc internet" problem. We have not evolved a sense of how to understand the Internet, and even if we did it keeps changing and evolving every five minutes. The human species is hundreds of thousands of years old, and our shared primate lineage goes back several million years. In these tens of thousands to millions of years, we have evolved detailed capacities for tools, language, collective cooperative social structures, agriculture, writing, astronomy and astronomical navigation, engineering, religion, science and the scientific method, and art in all of its forms. The Internet as we know it is less than fifty years old and it didn't start reaching into the consumer space until about thirty years ago. As a species, we are infants struggling to crawl about and picking things up and stuffing them in our mouths to identify what they are when it comes to understanding the Internet. We need to actively spread education about the Internet instead of assuming people will just figure it out the way they figure out a new toaster, and until we do shit is going to keep happening.
We should just nuke social media and go back to the days of anonymous message boards where you just discuss your interests.
Big jump from "watching porn on twitter" to sexual deviant
Twitter sounds like one of the least convenient ways to find porn, especially considering boorus are a thing
That list is pretty vanilla too, it's all stuff that shouldn't be hard to find on most boorus.
I dare say you couldn't come up with a much better system for finding pictures than boorus.
they did fine before it, they'll do fine after it.
Governments around the world are so out of touch with the internet it's insane how much companies have been abusing it and making massive profits over the years.
can you even find any boorus for those things, i havent heard of any.
Posts | Sankaku Channel has goddamn near everything, go give it a try and let me know.
Dude, they're fairly standard kinks.
Man, it's like you just asked Willy Wonka if he's got any sweets.
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