I saw I had like 50 people block me on one day, which is impressive considering I only have like 400 followers. Sure enough, it was the day a reply to a bigger account blew up and hundreds of credulous turnip truck passengers didn’t get the joke.
I made a skeet about how the turkey in the fridge was so big it's actually a dinosaur and a long time follower mansplained how birds and dinosaurs are related. I almost blocked lol.
This app is not in a competition with any other, at least not one that is scored by any comprehensive metric, so the concept of being “undefeated” is a false premise.
I saw you guys in Fresno in ‘98. I have no memory of whether you were good or not as I spent the whole time stoned out of my mind eating shaved ice. You guys are like a salsa group, right?
I don't think this will stand, as it's been my carefully observed experience (after finding myself at the wrong end of some not as carefully observed experiences) that when it comes to the subject of Threads, there are angry replies about two(2) meaningless details rather than one(1) useless detail.
hey, I agree with you, I knew threads was bad news as soon as its algo started recommending out of context posts with all the replies being “what are you talking about??” and it getting more toxic from there
I feel like there's a wider age range here too so there will be older people missing references ( including me) but also younger/older miscommunication.
This has to be related to the claim of “you’re an asshole if you don’t follow everyone back” on a platform where the default post is “make yourself a smoothie, they’re delicious and you’ll feel better”
She left out the best part of her packing strategy: the convenience and social networking potential of using the self-serve washing machines located on every third floor.
Another thing to think of maybe when we post sarcasm or joke we should put the context clue of it being so per example: *joking* or *sarcasm implied* although I can already see people’s excuses for laziness in not wanting to type that small part out *satire implied* for all this btw ;) xD
This. It’s exactly what my darling Marie said to me before her passing. God bless you, my Marie (aforementioned), and America’s Governor, Gavin Newsom.
Mastodon gets the joke but finds it to be problematic. Threads not only fails to understand the joke, but it also seems to be their first day on the internet
Or ya know people could just use the given punctuation we have and just put: *sarcasm implied* when it is implied but I guess it’s too much effort for some people on media.
at people needing a joke explained to them, or making the same joke back in response to a joke, yes, Twitter has/had innumerable problems but not this one at the constant rate we now see it here, it’s really noteworthy
I think those replies existed in similar quantities over there too, what’s different here is the lack of anything else. The population of this app is overwhelmingly unfunny, dimwitted, mostly benign posters and they’re not being balanced by any other categories
Do you think it's a bot thing? Is the ease of programming to engagement ratio better for making one that quibbles about jokes than one that shows appreciation/extends the premise?
I admittedly had a ‘private’ account on ‘the other site’ after a ‘infamous online movement/incident’ hit my industry, so it’s been a long time since I’ve had to deal with ‘the public’ on social media, outside of my work. I block liberally & quickly here due to a lack of patience 🫣😅
The bizarre, pointless hostility of Twitter and people sincerepost replying "this poem you posted is sad because it's true, people we love will die someday" exist at opposite poles of a spectrum whose middle consists of just, like, six million question marks
Yeah, given the choice between chugging a whole jar of mayo or a jar of asparagus piss it's no contest, but also some mild cold fear that we all just have "at least it's not piss!" syndrome now
Are you sure twitter wasn't just sorting the nazis' replies to the top so you got aggravated and stopped reading before the joke repeaters' replies showed up?
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Just a question...
Threads was actually a much more target rich environment in that sense when I was over there, but without any balance, so it was just exhausting
Or am I missing something?
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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Signed,
Been there still doing it
The carry-on bag contains:
- Clothes for 3 days
- 1 litre of industrial strength Febreeze
(Grain of salt, obviously, not everyone is this. I sure am tho.)
However, there has to be a formula.
(I forgot what the metric version of a minute is, and now I feel like a hack)
Don't be so ageist!
As Steve Martin says in Roxanne, one of my favorite movies:
https://youtu.be/vPY4HPWrL7Q?si=C31N-je7GMvAoKFP
And I very much prefer "sincerely clueless" to "sarcastic a-hole."
So… better?