My quick fix for social media is duration caps. Allowing content to be longer increases the likelihood that it will be annoying or evil. Twitter with character limits? Good. Vine with 6 second videos? Good. Remove these guardrails and you get only Digital Filth - ThreadSky

internethippo.bsky.social • 4 days ago

My quick fix for social media is duration caps. Allowing content to be longer increases the likelihood that it will be annoying or evil. Twitter with character limits? Good. Vine with 6 second videos? Good. Remove these guardrails and you get only Digital Filth

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jim-kelly75.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tldr

jakeskillman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wrong. Social media should be for sock puppet fringe right accounts to post AI generated rewordings of Curtis Yarvin substack articles about how poor people should be ground into biofuel.

shmarlow1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Slay things were u can

w-a-z.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don't know man, that stuff ruined our attention spans. It's very easy for a small lie/soundbite to go viral, good luck getting them to read the essay debunking it

stairwellbanjolele.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is some sort of link between the reactionary mind and word salads. That could do with more exploration as a topic for sure

rifka.bsky.social•4 days ago

Only milk for ducks, no shake

douibyorthst.bsky.social•4 days ago

When YouTube was capped at 15 mins and you didn't get people recommending you watch an 8 hour long documentary of a person talking to their webcam...

mightybattlesquid.bsky.social•4 days ago

What about 10 hr versions of funny videos https://youtu.be/a6GGZ68mOZA?si=Kvq3gkozzio3dNaD

nbrockmann.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just like term limits

parasocialista.bsky.social•4 days ago

Og Twitter and Vine were the platonic ideal of social media

jarlent.bsky.social•4 days ago

TikTok seems to completely shatter this idea

markymarx69.bsky.social•4 days ago

TikTok is a lesser product than Vine because of the lack of time limits. Learn to edit you fucks. Brevity is the soul of wit and all that

qmax.bsky.social•4 days ago

Disagree. Twitter's worst trait BEFORE Musk was the lack of nuance. Everybody had to be quippy, which led to endless argument about details.

scripting.com•4 days ago

How about a character limit of 1 ? Wouldn’t that be perfect? Or perhaps a fraction of a character? And videos could be two frames, and limited colors. Ahhh so peaceful.

kaylaelsewhere.bsky.social•3 days ago

Check out my new video where I try to air out all my grievances with society without using any overt racial slurs. It’s 4 hours long

skiddius.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's a reason the Internet was best when it was Vine, Twitter and YouTube had a 10 minute limit.

ohokur.bsky.social•4 days ago

You get a girl talking for 50 mins on youtube about a 10 second way to shave without shaving bumps.

eridescent.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think there's an inverse bell curve because some of the best content is half an hour to watch or read, but we can all agree that anything that can be consumed in five minutes is corrosive to the soul

brotherisaacg.bsky.social•4 days ago

The internet has always been hot filth. Just pick your flavor

xdresstera.bsky.social•4 days ago

i dont think I've ever clicked 'show more' on a tweet and been satisfied with the result

agu62.bsky.social•4 days ago

How about this: social media is only available from 9 to 5

thatvampirebitch.bsky.social•4 days ago

But what about my 5 hour video essays on a random piece of obscure media I'll never actually see/read/play?

bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social•4 days ago

I was worried you meant "duration caps" as a hard limit on screen time and I'll die before I go back to spending my time on my job or with my family

judydale.bsky.social•4 days ago

😂

donalm.bsky.social•4 days ago

it takes a village to raise a child (because I'm too busy posting)

dani-danger.bsky.social•4 days ago

I thought they meant duration caps on how long the social media platform could exist. Five years and the whole website has to be deleted. I think that’s probably for the best.

markshatraw.bsky.social•4 days ago

The Big Wet Boy lost all the juice when his character limit went away

wileymacgyver.bsky.social•4 days ago

Except for Simpsons QOTD. Larger character limit led to a golden age with account and only that account

sinshinelove.bsky.social•4 days ago

i'm super happy to be on bluesky, i used to be on twitter over a decade ago and i really enjoyed it back then

ditched facebook for bluesky and aside from kind of missing memories feed... i kind of forget those other places even exist now. i'm not even on tumblr anymore

kozyraccoon.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's not that simple unfortunately. Character limits limit nuance so it only allows for simplified narratives and slogans.
Besides, most disinformation in MAGA circles is shared through single pic memes. This would do nothing to stop those.

ayrtonwonton.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm so nervous to have kids because i grew up with unrestricted internet access 😂 as of right now I'm thinking no social media till high school but I have no clue if that's TOO far in the other direction 😭

wigatron.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed. Nobody needs to read an unwanted thesis on twitter

dngrs.bsky.social•4 days ago

I agr

audens.bsky.social•4 days ago

easy proof of this is those novel length twitter posts. every single one is the most purile dogshit you've ever read

kozyraccoon.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's a bias at play here tho. Most people deciding to pay for premium features on X are far right ghouls, so of course long posts tend to be dogshit, because it's generally a specific type of ghoul who buys access to this

pf99kg.bsky.social•4 days ago

my quick fix is to get rid of ai and bots

stilgherrian.com•4 days ago

I so want to treat this as a challenge, writing the most filthy insult in as few characters as possible.

germyf.bsky.social•4 days ago

Stupid and evil fits even better in 200 characters than the truth does.

hardklaw.bsky.social•4 days ago

140 character limit was tried and true and they threw it all away. Peak internet

theyfag.bsky.social•4 days ago

personally i preferred 280 but im just a wordy leftist

the-barely-jew.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you take more than 15 seconds to compose a post your account gets deleted

ghostanimatesstuff.bsky.social•4 days ago

My ass would get nuked from orbit, I use the joys of character limits to rephrase everything I write 30 times

urban-achiever.bsky.social•4 days ago

all internet media reverts to the pornographic or downright immoral given enough time and a big enough user base.

snythe.bsky.social•4 days ago

This feels like a Law of some kind.

kepsico.bsky.social•4 days ago

140 characters was too many All posts should be expressible in 70 char

lucyksy.bsky.social•4 days ago

While it is certainly true that many people need editing, it is equally true that most people now have a very short attention span and can't focus on anything that isn't in short bits. Interesting that so many comments completely ignore this.

scoot.bzky.team•4 days ago

Counterpoint: 12 hour youtube videos

obliquemedia.bsky.social•4 days ago

Still 10x too long. I want videos down to 0.6 seconds. That takes away a full 90% of the capacity to establish the premise of an intelligence-depleting conspiracy theory.

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