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685327593 t1_iunflcx wrote

Can you imagine in TikTok, Facebook and Twitter all go down together? What an amazing day that would be!

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Dr-McLuvin t1_iunoffa wrote

Redditors and MySpace users rejoice!

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zoicyte t1_iunpn6p wrote

man i miss myspace.

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regalrecaller t1_iunv1fj wrote

It was too honest. Difficult to make money from it. It also forced users to have some kind of computer skills.

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zoicyte t1_iunzgtw wrote

>computer skills

lolwut?

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bravejango t1_iuo08cu wrote

If you wanted to customize your pay layout you had to know basic HTML and CSS. Then websites came out that you could pay for layouts. Then layouts became free but were injected with malware and other shit.

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iruleatlifekthx t1_iuq2t12 wrote

I learned all of my html and css skills there lol. My first web design class I completed the whole semester's load of work in a couple days - 100's on everything. And my page was fire

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zoicyte t1_iuo21jy wrote

i don't know if i would call that computer skills haha, but i guess i see your point.

(also i do remember this but it was such pissant basic html

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Sieg67 t1_iuownjk wrote

I knew a bit of HTML at the time but I mostly just copied and pasted stuff from sites into the editor.

I don't remember if there were specific instructions for each element or if I already knew where to place them, though.

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TheFriendlyArtificer t1_iuormec wrote

I miss arbitrarily ranking my friends and bumping that girl I met at the club to my top 8 list.

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White_Mocha t1_iupzbye wrote

Only had one night of a myspace account before my dad changed my password. Apparently, he had access to my email account, and when myspace sent my login information, he saw it, changed it, then wiped my face in it.

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NotsoGreatsword t1_iur262n wrote

what a dick. reminds me of when my parents found my Final Fantasy 7 fanfiction and printed it out. Then they read it to me and laughed at me about how bad it was.

"You really think anyone is going to want to read this?"

Before that I got awards in school for my writing and had even won a statewide competition in my age group.

All of that stopped when that happened I was too embarrassed to write anything that I was not forced to write for school.

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UncleMilts t1_iuoub1e wrote

Digg is probably still kicking themselves for the changes they made that made everyone leave for Reddit.

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MyWorldTalkRadio t1_iunox4r wrote

We all return to Tumblr

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bravejango t1_iuo0ci2 wrote

Tumblr died because they stopped allowing porn.

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MyWorldTalkRadio t1_iuo59bh wrote

Pretty sure they allow porn again.

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unresolved_m t1_iup7rhv wrote

Just nudity, no porn. Not sure what that would accomplish given that there's already OnlyFans.

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MattDaCatt t1_iuo191g wrote

Twitter and Meta nerds going to flock to tumblr and reddit, then move to reddit once they get bullied off tumblr. That's when we return to tumblr and make fun of reddit.

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Toprelemons t1_iupmyt9 wrote

Then people will just shift over to Reddit and become the next shit hole?

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jpiro t1_iunxjan wrote

It's crazy that of those three, I actually hate Facebook the least.

Twitter just went full right-wing nuthouse.
TikTok is, and always has been, Chinese spyware.

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TheThirdRnner t1_iuo6ywe wrote

Honestly, would be nice to just have a platform without any left/right nuthousery.

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jpiro t1_iuo7od0 wrote

That's why I'm on Reddit more than ever. It's here, but it's not as disruptive as on other platforms.

FB I still use just to keep up with people I actually know.

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Mr_SkeletaI t1_iuoh6gc wrote

If you don’t think the political nuthousery isn’t disruptive on here then boy do I have a bridge to sell you

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jpiro t1_iuohe72 wrote

IMO, it's easier to avoid here than on FB comment sections, Twitter threads, etc.

Personal preference, I'm sure.

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WinterNL t1_iuour7n wrote

It can be a bit of an echo chamber, not just in terms of politics, but you do fairly regularly see people with either a valid question or even an unexpected (and possibly not well liked) correct answer get downvoted into oblivion.

However at least it doesn't outright promote controversial content.

Did worry a bit when I recently got invited to do a reddit survey and there were a bunch of questions about discovering new content/subs. I sincerely hope we don't end up with r/all or trending new subs being forced into our regular home page.

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__homan__ t1_iuoxme3 wrote

>Twitter just went full right-wing nuthouse.

aka Twitter stopped censoring one side of the debate.

I don't see them censoring left wing dribble, so why the complaint?

Free speech as long as it's only my speech.

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jpiro t1_iup1no9 wrote

When one side is responsible for the vast majority of misinformation and conspiracy bullshit, yeah, that’s the side that should get shut down more often.

Glad Elon was at least smart enough to delete his own misinfo spread within hours of owning the platform at least.

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_WardenoftheWest_ t1_iupctjn wrote

There’s a gulf between censoring political beliefs, and letting Q bullshit spread rampant, let election deniers free reign, let the Brexit lies stand; those are not the same thing and you are blind or really far down the rabbit hole of self-reinforcement if you think they are

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bravejango t1_iuo0rd0 wrote

What are the Chinese going to get from your TikTok that google isn’t stealing from you? Why would the Chinese give two shits about you? Facebook gathers just as much if not more then TikTok.

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thatfreshjive t1_iuo1ket wrote

Absolutely incorrect. Tik Tok collects WAY more data, and changes it's behavior if the app determines you are attempting to analyze it's network traffic.

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jpiro t1_iuo1wcr wrote

Nope. Breakdown here.

More here.

More here.

TikTok is shady as fuck.

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generallyanoaf t1_iuo9das wrote

Your other links are good but you should probably avoid using that Reddit comment. Dude claims he "reverse engineered" TikTok, Facebook, etc and had all the data but unfortunately his laptop died so he couldn't actually prove anything and he also couldn't reverse engineer it again for some reason and was going to post the proof in a few days but has since gone silent for the last couple years.

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jpiro t1_iuoa4rm wrote

Fair enough, it was just something I remembered from way back that raised alarms about TikTok that have been proven correct in the years since. There may have even been a different post I'm thinking of, but this is the one I found with a quick Google.

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AmbitionExtension184 t1_iuo3ii5 wrote

I don’t think you realize how massive of a win it would be for meta if TikTok is banned. Meta apps aren’t available in China and they have 40% of the world using their apps daily. Meanwhile TikTok growth has already plateaued well under FB numbers and they are a Chinese company…

The whole market is down except for meta and snap because of this news alone.

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Hero_Of_Shadows t1_iuo02y1 wrote

I just want a way to chat with my Facebook friends without Facebook itself and I'm good.

Facebook is how I stay in contact with college friends.

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Nonya5 t1_iupes6x wrote

Oh what a day, what a lovely day!

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fgdfghdhj5yeh t1_iuqeq6q wrote

hell yea! Plenty of other stuff to add to that list as well. The amazon blackout day was such a great day. I enjoyed all my stuff running watching all of these companies having their entire phone system to website to email down. Good times

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cdash4 t1_iuo2wss wrote

Twitter is about to restart Vine. It’ll be the new TikTok.

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