Mike Masnick ✅Jul 6, 2023
The future of microblogging social media: everyone posting on their preferred platform to complain about some other new entrant into the microblogging social media market that people are buzzing about and which people who are comfortable with their existing choice don't want to bother with.
Show threadtrinigod

@mmasnick this also recalls my observation that every internet community tends to hyperbolise the belief that every other internet community is just. the. absolute. worst.

observed this kinda thinking over the years on reddit, twitter, Google+, even AV Club comment sections lol, etc etc

Jul 6, 2023 at 5:21pmTusky
Show threadCtBkJul 6, 2023
@trinigod @mmasnick The need of self-validation is very powerful and can be rationalised instantaneously. See also: PlayStation vs Xbox, MyParty vs YourParty, MySchool vs YourSchool…
Show threadtrinigodJul 6, 2023
@ctbk definitely an aspect of in-group vs out-group psychology
Show threadLizardJul 6, 2023
@ctbk @trinigod @mmasnick There was a Bloom County Sunday strip showing the characters progressively sub-dividing the world into "ours" and "theirs" until only two were left, one of whom was, IIRC, accused of breathing the other's air.
Show threadThe OwlChemistJul 7, 2023

@ctbk @trinigod @mmasnick or maybe there is a serious, valid concern of welcoming the perpetrators of the Cambridge Analytica crimes to share your space 🤷‍♂️

but it’s easier to blame competitiveness and ego than discuss in earnest that so many people are cool with a high profile criminal organization joining the party

Show threadSiggi Bjarnason 🤠Jul 14, 2023
@trinigod @mmasnick internet communities seem to share this with religious communities 😎🤓😀
Show threadtrinigodJul 16, 2023
@siggib human nature basically
Show threadSiggi Bjarnason 🤠Jul 16, 2023
@trinigod sadly yes