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Funnily enough, the original novel was very much not satire. When I was in the Marines, it was on the official recommended reading list. When the film script writers and Paul Verhoven saw the story, they couldn’t picture it as anything BUT satire.

I left MySpace because I got tired of a fall out boy song automatically playing whenever I looked at someone’s profile

miss that place

I have that exact story for an anime forum in 2006.

Why would anyone want to stay on Twitter? It’s just infested with bots and scam accounts, it’s basically unusable

Nowadays, people’s entire identity and purpose comes from the platform they’re on versus it being an extension of who they are. Without it, they don’t have the mechanisms to feel satisfied or valued or loved so they take it out on everyone.

There’s a circle of life for all social media platforms

People have completely lost their minds about what social media *is*.

Guessing Muskstans are have a normal one again...

It's funny -- five nines seems kind of boring in this day and age. It's a big event when one of the heavy hitters go down! Reddit does every so often and seems impervious to losing users that way, and ofc most folks are thrilled when Outlook/Teams have trouble.

Every social scene has a time limit, something I think people could remember more

Come back to Prodigy!!

I've buried at least a dozen BBS forums, IRC channels, etc. I used to hang out on. Online spaces are temporary. People are always finding new ones, because old ones always eventually become unusable.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again: I am here to take a shit, not hash out the New Magna Carta with millions of strangers

That's what did it for me this time to. Occasionally my App didn't load and was super slow. It annoyed me and I left. The rest didn't help, also.

the quote from The Social Network is so relevant and might be the easiest way to explain any success and failure

Meanwhile on LiveJournal...

It has been like 15 years since anyone had to seriously switch social media sites. Of course it would produce weirdest takes. I'm still surprised this bsky migration is not a fluke.