perils of new old media

[dragonlady7]

Ha I have committed a new-to-me social media faux pas courtesy of Dreamwidth being a bold new world-- idly read a bunch of link roundup style posts, opened the links in new tabs to read later, read some, decided to engage with them, and then went and thanked the wrong OP for one of the links. LOL. It seems faux-pas-ish to pass on links without acknowledging when you saw them, but it's so easy, with tabbed browsing, to forget why you have a tab open?
Anyhow, one thing that's better than any other social media site I'm on is that if I go back to my Dreamwidth reading page and scroll back, the things that were on there will still be where I left them. I get that some of that is that I just don't follow quite the number of posters as on Tumblr (and also, most people don't post more than two or three entries in a day, if even that; many do one a week or so, while most do one a day, instead of Tumblr where some people turned out to just shotgun-blast a dozen or more posts a day, often all within an hour) but Tumblr did love to just refresh my dash without my asking it to so I could never find what I was just looking at, and on Twitter the timeline reshuffles constantly and displays me things it thinks I want rather than actual content from people I follow-- an astonishing proportion of the shit I see on Twitter is from people I neither follow nor interact with-- and Instagram is super into forcing me to look at every single photo in a multi-photo posts so it'll reshuffle people's posts back up to the top, and not show me things I want to see, and lately I find I'm following people I never clicked on, so that's fascinating and by that I mean I hate it...

Anyhow. I'm adjusting, still, but I drastically prefer Dreamwidth to anything else. And i'm trying to remember to leave comments on posts I enjoy, and we'll see how I do with that.

Comments

[thornsilver]

I started on social medial with LiveJournal (of which Dreamwidth) is a clone, and by the time I had to fall into FaceBook, Twitter, and Tumblr, my hatred of them was entrenched. And their inability to present shit to you on reverse timeline, is #1 reason those platforms suck donkey dick.

[dragonlady7]

Oh, I started out on LJ too-- I joined in '01, and used it exclusively until someone forced me to get a Facebook account in 2007.

I think the unrestrained sale of personal and private data illicitly mined is actually the thing I hate worst about those platforms, but the "allllgorithms will decide what you see!" is pretty up there.

[wyomingnot]

There is an actual setting to make twitter chronological. But of course it's not the default. And while it makes it slightly less annoying, it's still fucking twitter.

(you can force chronological order on your facebook feed too. it really doesn't like you to though, and for the longest time it kept asking 'are you sure?' every time i loaded it that way)