my miyavi bitching would go all the way up to this size but college taught me to edit my thots!!! yaaass literacy yaaassss bitch yasss
I wanna say tho, growing up with tomomi washing his ass, ironing his dresses, and running his pvc leggings to drycleaners while managing every word falling out of his mouth to…𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈… has been a pretty ugly experience
Aww thanks.
@Kang_Disconnect Oh, there are. It’s more that my utaite phase is over. Besides I feel like in the oughties it was … far more niche to the point that people who weren’t even remotely pros at singing managed to share their covers on NND and even make careers out of it because of how scarce and unprofessional the scene was. We would eat up covers made by anyone who had an okay singing voice. Nowadays many pro singers cover … really I don’t even know how to explain but now there are so many GOOD studio-made options, it feels less like a tight-knit community and the criticism towards amateurs is probably harsher too. Idk things were different in the 00s. Love some Vocaloid covers though … plenty of cool songs
@Bloodsugar hmm that’s probably a thing too. lol some producers can make terrible singing voices sound okay I guess. Ugh don’t even mention mics. Uhh I guess I like singing as in… karaoke? smule? yeah. But actually learning how to sing properly … is something else. To be fair I don’t think I would have managed even if I had attempted - autism supposedly makes me have a flat/emotionless accent even singing, and the relative pitch is another challenge. So it’s more a “lolol damn lost my calling at life !!” thing than actually believing I would be able to do it in a non-ear-offensive way lol.
@Rahzel You don’t know that if you don’t try. When I compare my singing ability today to 20 years ago it’s still quite different.
And I’m not sure that autism per se has a direct effect on the voice. Take Susan Boyle for example.
@Bloodsugar Not sure in technical terms, but there is some research on it - anedoctally I have been told a few times (by … people who can actually sing) that my singing voice isn’t bad and it’s not like I am terribly off-pitch, but it’s emotionless or sounds like I am shy about singing even if I am alone lol. It’s not something I notice while singing but sometimes I record myself and go “oh… got it” afterwards but IDK really … and it’s not like it can’t be trained either I suppose. For my speech I feel like I tend to be almost overdramatic and overcompensate for a natural lack of enthusiasm lol … so if I learned to pay attention to it I prob would be able to correct it
Interesting… I didn’t know that. I think our singing voice often sounds different from the speaking voice though.
So far it’s been hilarious/tragic (mostly hilarious) to watch Elon Musk run twitter to the ground and it’ll be interesting to see what site will become the next big thing and how long it’s going to take.
really I am afraid the answer is gonna be ‘Tiktok in the next 3 months’
Tiktok is the one platform I personally will not get on, so maybe once twitter is dead and buried my attention span will heal. It’d be nice to be able to read a book again instead of checking the internet every 5 minutes…
that sounds amazing, meanwhile I am here compulsively checking whether my energy on any of the 10 gacha games I play has replenished yet
I’ll throw a wrench into the equation as always; why have one platform to rule them all?
I’m seeing this play out in my friend group right now. Everyone likes playing video games but no one can agree on what to play, so instead of playing one game that not everyone is into, people go off and find games that suit them.
I think that social media platforms will trend much the same way. I already see it with very extreme conservatives peeling themselves off Twitter and Reddit for alternatives like Gab and Parler. Whatever the reasons may be, people may find that the “one size fits all” shoe of Twitter-like clones isn’t as snug of a fit as a tailor-made shoe. Maybe we’ll circle back to having disparate communities on the internet centered around similar hobbies. A discussion center is still a necessity, so perhaps some combination of forum software and chat software could be deployed so that people can stay in touch across a variety of platform and devices.
Hmmm, sounds like us!
AKA, I think the pendulum is swinging back the other way. Twitter isn’t necessarily special - not any more than JRO is - what makes it special are the people that make up the platform. If people can no longer come to a consensus on what makes a platform usable to them, then decentralization is the only answer.
As much as potentially losing Twitter sucks, and as much as I enjoy the community square feeling of it, I’m not entirely convinced it’s mentally healthy. Like…I’m not convinced that it should be replicated on another platform, whatever it is, no matter how much I personally enjoyed it. Tricky.
You know I feel the same way. I made a whole mix about it, and you and @Missa both said that it was quite exhausting. It’s very similar to how I felt before I unplugged, and what you’re describing is what I was attempting to communicate a while back on the Discord.
It’s a tricky subject because there are inherently good and bad things that come with hyper connectivity. They can’t be separated. For example, you’re reading this now and I hope that’s a Good Thing! We got to connect in a way we never would have otherwise. But I do think hyper connectivity and awareness of every bad thing happening around the globe the moment it happens has also contributed to the feeling of weariness, anxiety, and exhaustion that runs through all of us.
Then I always think of the phrase “misery loves company”, and I’ve gone into my whole spiel about finding positive energies and avoiding negative ones, but I think this ties into discourse online. Don’t have to go far to find people arguing about anything and everything, and that’s another flavor of exhaustion. Also can’t fight against the fire hose of disinformation; it’s much harder to disprove one lie than to tell ten! And all of this is brand new, so no one’s got it worked out in terms of what “moderation of consumption” actually means in this case.
But considering just how radicalized my society has become since 2008, lined that up with the rise of certain popular social media platforms (ahemahemfbahemahem) and the popular style of information presentation switching from subscriptions to news feed, and I can’t help but see a causal relationship there that we’ll only understand fully in a few decades.
I really don’t think we need an online hub for discourse. Twitter was that website and it 's got it’s good parts and it’s bad ones. It truly needs human moderation on an inconceivable scale and no one will agree on who should moderate them, or how, or what is acceptable. As someone who has been a moderator on a forum for over half his life, public moderation is key. People have to feel like we’re doing something or else we feel pointless as a group. But then that gets into doxxing and bias and all sorts of other sticky topics there are no good answers for.
I think we work best with some level of distributed networking and anonymity in smaller numbers, but that’s personal opinion. I like forums and chat rooms and even YouTube (I just avoid comments)! Avoiding the big names has been good for my mental health, and as people move away from Twitter, I hope that theirs improves as well.
Maybe then we can re-contextualize our relationship with all of these platforms and which ones work for us individually. When I was driving back last week, I heard an ad on the radio for a class action lawsuit against Instagram peddling harmful content to teens, so I’m certainly not the only one riding this wave…
no but have you seen the amount of “if you’re migrating to tumblr here is what you need to know!” posts on twitter? seriously I feel like a naked pilgrim about to move to a wintery land.
It’s so funny. People are acting like Tumblr is a brand new thing and you have to learn how to navigate there. Reality: you have a blog, that’s it. It’s not twitter and it can’t replace twitter. Funny that fandom people moved from (twitter to?) tumblr to twitter and back to tumblr … says a lot about the corporate web’s decadence and all
Anyway, the thing is, it can hardly be replaced. The web changes. Personal domains are no more, myspace is no more, (lol neither is neopets or gaiaonline) livejournal is no more, (and even DW which meant to replace it never did) facebook is declining, tumblr had its peak, apparently it’s the end of the twitter era now and… yeah, I have been tweeting since uhh 2007 or 2008 (remember custom profile backgrounds? yeah) so I am going to miss it for sure but nothing can be done. But I guess the quarantined kiddos are going through it for the first time and that’s why they are freaking out.
I always found the need to use Twitlonger with Twitter to be kind of funny. What that really implies is that I think many, at least up until the pickle that we’re in now, wanted Twitter to be the all-in-one microblogging, personal blogging, & media-sharing solution, even if it meant pulling from third-party sites/resources to bring into the site.
As interesting going back to the disparate Web 1.0 days would be as a millennial, I think general nosiness and insatiability to share to the largest potential audience our society has outweighs the potential for anything more heterogeneous than what we have currently (never mind the marketing potential larger social media networks have.)
All that being said…
I’ve neglected the popularity of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc. and how quickly their usage and dependency has shot up over the past several years. Yes, they’re direct messaging applications, but with the current number of users, perhaps there could be some outward expansion into a microblogging feature (not too far removed from those large groups/channels)… Centralized platforms with users starting out in decentralized space. You’re literally re-inventing Facebook, but you make it more attractive lmao.
I also forgot that you probably couldn’t have a single platform additionally handle the amount of videos that video sharing sites have (even the short-form ones like Tiktok), though FB has gotten close I think.
I was raised in a highly political family which explains why my favorite day of the year is election day which is tomorrow. 
As yen tumbles, gadget-loving Japan goes for secondhand iPhones the yen has fallen 22% since last year and is at a 32 year low against the dollar so import while you can Americans.
Jeansainis, why didn’t you tell me you were leaving?
“Autumn is leaving and you say goodbye to me with it” I told you sincerely and you called me a lesbian, do you think I’m a lesbian because I feel sad about the departure of a friend?
It doesn’t matter anymore, no matter what you say, you will always be my friend and I will be here, when you have nowhere to go remember that you have me.
Since when has he been behaving this way? You no longer had anywhere to go… why do you behave that way? You worry me a lot, every time I see the cuts on your arms I can’t help but cry…
You can use telegram channels as your second Twitter but without annoying tweets from the others in your timeline.
To add to this, Discord now has forum features. There definitely seems to be a trend towards private services with public features, instead of public services with private features. Did that make any sense?
