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What has been happening to social sites lately?
12 years ago
FA doesn't seem too bad off yet (one of the reasons I'm posting this rant here, lol) but FA is also less social and far more focused on art.
But I've been an avid Redditor for years now, and lately (as in 3-5 weeks I guess .. coincidentally not long after the PRISM leak?) submission and comment quality there feels as though it's really just went into the toilet. I would say "all of the banal crap appears to be upvoted to frontpage in every sub", except the problem isn't the quality content being downvoted.. the problem really appears to be the quality content isn't getting posted in the first place.
And what's up with Youtube? "Related" videos along the side and at the end of a video you are watching are no longer even tangentially related.. now they're just really bad and offensive parodies of your general interests. Like if you were a vegan and the "here's what you like" fairy deduced that you like food and drowned you in McDonald's adverts. For example, I like certain shows like Dick Figures and Baman Piderman. These are produced by Mondo Media so Youtube shoves Happy Tree Friends gore-porn at me all day long.
It also doesn't help that so many of the channels I've subscribed to on Youtube (yeah, even Laci Green who I've posted positively about in FA journals before) are really beginning to disappoint me. Klaatu42 took down most of his videos. Danebo and Simon's cat and Sheep Films sold out big time.
I feel like all of the real action online is moving to new places but that I can't tell where and I'm being left behind.
What do you guys think?
But I've been an avid Redditor for years now, and lately (as in 3-5 weeks I guess .. coincidentally not long after the PRISM leak?) submission and comment quality there feels as though it's really just went into the toilet. I would say "all of the banal crap appears to be upvoted to frontpage in every sub", except the problem isn't the quality content being downvoted.. the problem really appears to be the quality content isn't getting posted in the first place.
And what's up with Youtube? "Related" videos along the side and at the end of a video you are watching are no longer even tangentially related.. now they're just really bad and offensive parodies of your general interests. Like if you were a vegan and the "here's what you like" fairy deduced that you like food and drowned you in McDonald's adverts. For example, I like certain shows like Dick Figures and Baman Piderman. These are produced by Mondo Media so Youtube shoves Happy Tree Friends gore-porn at me all day long.
It also doesn't help that so many of the channels I've subscribed to on Youtube (yeah, even Laci Green who I've posted positively about in FA journals before) are really beginning to disappoint me. Klaatu42 took down most of his videos. Danebo and Simon's cat and Sheep Films sold out big time.
I feel like all of the real action online is moving to new places but that I can't tell where and I'm being left behind.
What do you guys think?
~Wolve