Latest comic: Pick your social network!

#socialmedia #internet #tech #authoritarianism

@jensorensen

Brilliant! I think "Goebbler" and "Skunkible" are my favs.

@jensorensen

I love this comic, but think that the app should be spelled Goebblr.

@jensorensen I’m having trouble figuring out what Skunkible is
@FreezePeach That one doesn't refer to a particular network, although it was somewhat inspired by the slightly-competitive zinger culture of Bluesky
@jensorensen ahh, I see. I haven’t touched blueksy because I want no more of Dorsey than I’m forced to deal with. I didn’t know zinger culture was a part of the network.
@FreezePeach @jensorensen There's a lot of drama and zingers. Also a lot of fighting for the rights of the little people, which is all right. However, the commitment from the boss folks... is uneven.

@FreezePeach @jensorensen

Anyone catch Jack's post trollollolling @mark@threads.nyet ? 🤭

Nyet now b. 🤭🔥

@FreezePeach i think skunkable might be Reddit with the upvote/downvote system. I’m not 100% sure.
@jensorensen Goebbler is a hilarious word creation!
@jensorensen @mariyadelano we should only refer to it as Big Mammoth from here on

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max props for writing it all down in the image alt text 🏆 🥰

@pmj Thanks! This one did take some time!
@jensorensen As I've been saying: social media platforms initially facilitated the breakup of society into tribal factions. Now, social media platforms *are* the tribes: which one you use declares which tribe you're in.
@jensorensen
hey, big mammoth has negatives too (distributed networks amiright)!
like continuous self-destructing nature of it (parts of it just fall out),
and the poorest discovery (needed literal white pages directory to support the scale)

@jensorensen I figured goebbler was twitter, influenzza -> instagram, and happytime funfeed would be tiktok? (couldn't figure out skunkible)

idk about the authoritarian part, but I've always thought of tiktok as the most censored social media, although it's likely I'm behind 

@mechadragon Influenzza was based on Instagram and what I've heard about Threads. Happytime Funfeed and Skunkible are more composites than exact matches to any one network.
@jensorensen I would perhaps change the first panel to read, "RW conspiracy theorists." Big corporations sometimes brand whistleblowers as conspiracy theorists and alarmists to discredit them. Just saying... Otherwise, spot on!
@DoomsdaysCW Good point, hadn't thought of that.
@jensorensen Twitter, Facebook, ???, ???, Mastodon.
@tobadzistsini They're mishmashes of various networks, not exact matches.
@jensorensen Twitter, Facebook, ???, Spoutible, Mastodon.
@jensorensen how the hell do i get on skunkible?! Anyone got an invite code?!

@jensorensen It's very refreshing to see a comparison between different social networks that doesn't force some kind of equivalence between a network run by fascists and a network where you have to put in some effort to curate your feed because there is no algorithm to do that for you

Those things are not as equal as some people seem to think

@lotographia Yeah, I was trying to make that distinction clear.
@jensorensen Bless you for your patient replies to explain your artistic decisions. 🤦🏽‍♂️
@ottsatwork Thanks! They are understandable questions. :)
@jensorensen it's funny because it's true
@jensorensen... But ALL my friends are on Goebbler!!!
@jensorensen no reddit comparison? But this comic is great without it
@Henry_David_Throwed It probably could have been a dozen panels, but it was already getting too long.
@jensorensen
That Big Mammoth looks pretty good.
@jensorensen
Why I love being on Big Mammoth.
@jensorensen This is fucking genius ! Thank you !
@jensorensen “Big Mammoth” makes me hungry for a giant, juicy steak. 🥩
@jensorensen so twitter is goebbler, big mAmmoth is mastodon, influenza is instagram, but the rest I'm not sure
@louisrcouture You've just about got it. The others are a mix, not any one network
@jensorensen Wow, that Goebbler logo! I’m in awe… Never have I ever seen a better use for a Sonnenrad.
@ThatWeltschmerz I've been waiting for someone to appreciate the turkey!
In a nutshell, choose your poison wisely.
@jensorensen it looks really obvious which one is the proper choice here 😁
@jensorensen is skunkible representing TikTok?
@mrbellek Skunkible isn't supposed to be one specific network, it could be any number of things.
@jensorensen what are the other ones besides twitter and mastodon?

@scott @jensorensen

I think Goebbler is meant to be Facebook? At this point in Facebook I try to unfollow everything thats not a special interest group (ttrpgs mostly, but also blender, sometimes medieval history or linguistics) or memes. And if the meme groups stop being funny they go away go.

Sometimes I still get caught in a doom thread though talking about awful and mentally exhausting world problems I cant do anything about though, and sometimes it still makes me unable to focus on working to pay my bills. Which is bad.

I dunno about the rest.

The happy happy funtime only™ one might be tiktok.

As for ones that seem less awful: friendica is FB-like but decentralized. Federates with mastodon but has features you dont get on mastodon like end to end encrypted messaging and contact-groups and it connects to pleroma and you can follow RSS feeds. Its what I'm posting from now. No meaningful charlimits, and it supports bbcode text formatting too. Pretty nice features.

Calckey looks neat. Havent tried it yet. Seems to me like a mastodon+ from the features. It's a fork of Misskey with more features.

Kbin looks like a potentially decent way to ditch reddit.

Peertube is a youtube alternative. I've watched exactly one peertube video so far. It worked fine. Theres a search engine for it i have bookmarked on my PC but I'm drawing a blank on the name atm. [Sepia search]

@jensorensen Given that we're maintaining currently 4 accounts and our own website... I feel with the last panel.
@jensorensen can I post this on Tumblr? 😄 And should I add a link other than the embedded one?