LazyBoy Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 You now I quite like the slower pace of the forum. Everything seems more considered, less reactionary. Fuck it more mature, though that possibly reflects us growing older more than anything else. Maybe we just need to push ourselves to put more new topics up, possibly come up with a system. Also let's get a mafia game going - just one for old times sake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 On 20/08/2020 at 1:59 PM, LazyBoy said: Fuck it more mature I don't know why but this amused me. I'm not one to think swearing is "immature" but I think it was just the proximity of those two words. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 On 20/08/2020 at 1:59 PM, LazyBoy said: Everything seems more considered, less reactionary. Which other forums do you frequent? Tho on point I do think there is an aspect of falling back to these areas tho - especially amongst out generations. As you say the pace is different to the immediacy of social media and that pace is basically commericialised and controlled - and people are getting fed up with that. Imagine we ran this whole place on facebook for example. With one small tiby click of a button afew things going wrong etcetc we are a platform ON a platform somebody who knows fuck all about us could shut us down in and instant - no fallback. I think with time 'facebook'* will decay and maybe forums will jump back into the mix again too but there's something fundamental in the way that forums exist(even tho hosted and it can all go down) in the way even of internet archive machines or even the site admins/backups etc that it can continue to survive in a way we all know it cannot neccessarily do so on other platforms. *not zuckerberg. nor the corporation. they're well prepped for what to do next after their inevitable downfall imo they just stall as long as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 10 hours ago, Rummy said: 10 hours ago, Rummy said: Which other forums do you frequent? Tho on point I do think there is an aspect of falling back to these areas tho - especially amongst out generations. As you say the pace is different to the immediacy of social media and that pace is basically commericialised and controlled - and people are getting fed up with that.Imagine we ran this whole place on facebook for example. With one small tiby click of a button afew things going wrong etcetc we are a platform ON a platform somebody who knows fuck all about us could shut us down in and instant - no fallback. I think with time 'facebook'* will decay and maybe forums will jump back into the mix again too but there's something fundamental in the way that forums exist(even tho hosted and it can all go down) in the way even of internet archive machines or even the site admins/backups etc that it can continue to survive in a way we all know it cannot neccessarily do so on other platforms. *not zuckerberg. nor the corporation. they're well prepped for what to do next after their inevitable downfall imo they just stall as long as possible. Well. I dunno how I became fucking psychic yesterday but look whos just changing their terms and the reasoning why(this is imo to do with the Kenosha shooting); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 They could also be preparing themselves for things like this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/01/facebook-instagram-threatens-block-australians-sharing-news-landmark-accc-media-law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcubed Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Nice to know that Facebook are more interested in saving their own skin than the skin of actual people being harmed by their platform 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 31 minutes ago, Ashley said: They could also be preparing themselves for things like this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/01/facebook-instagram-threatens-block-australians-sharing-news-landmark-accc-media-law I was waiting for someone to say this too - but what is best is that you said the all important also I think its both and the Oz story is a perfect way yo undertake both whilst ignoring the more controversial story of the two. One can be dealt with politically - and oh boy did they go political. Apparentl FB broke new first to NYT but IN AMERICA - so they gave jump on story to US media before anything in Oz so you can see caclculated agendas here not single pronged responses. I also find it a weird self-harming reaction for facebook to cut a market - so why? whats worth more to them? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/kenosha-militia-facebook-reported-455-times-moderators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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