I thought Twitter was a stupid idea when it first started. 140 character limit? What the fuck is the point? The fact they increased that limit shows it was dumb. Everything else about the site just gives further reason to hate it.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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That limit came from the days of SMS. The idea was that you can't go to the internet, because data is expensive, the network doesn't exist, your dumb phone can't even open websites etc. However, you can send SMS messages, and those things have a 160 character limit.
Do does that mean they took an existing limitation from the SMS protocol, that didn't apply because it used data instead and then shoehorned it into a godawful web 2.0 monstrosity all the same (and bear in mind, this is significantly reducing the unnecessary character limit!)
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How are we measuring?
- Global harmful impact: it's hard to beat Facebook
- Disgusting: long ago, I got a spam advertising a dedicated CSAM site. I looked to see it it was really what it said, and sent it to NCMEC when I saw that is was
- Actively malign: 8chan is up there, as are old fashioned hate groups.
I kinda meant horrible design, but I guess these categories are good measurements too
Nextdoor has gotta be in the top 10.
It is amazing how toxic people on that site are. Especially when you consider it's not anonymous and the people are literally in your neighborhood
It's a shitshow. LinkedIn, too.
8chan
Literally 4chan, but worse.
How do you even land there?
I only know 4chan through comments, I wouldn't even bother looking for another site like that lol.
4chan wasn't even the first, it was an English version of a japanese site (futaba channel) which was an image board version of a forum (2channel).
Back in the late aughts, there were a ton of *chan sites. Some even more unsavory than 4chan.
horserentals.com
I like the random red button on the left with no description. Had to click
This one is gold
Blue, actually. Very, very, very blue.
You can, by going to the coupon page of this Web Site, print out coupons for trail rides and receive great discounts.
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With Facebook and x.com you pretty much understand the risks going in.
But with stack overflow there's so much naivete required to create an account and begin asking questions. The good stuff is laid out right in front of you: people asking similar questions and getting thoughtful responses to deeply technical questions. It feels rewarding to get your first answer approved.
But then after months of "trying" you hit the wall. A sudden deluge of hostility and toxicity. Bipolar moderation staff suddenly deciding your content has no value and dumping you on a curb at night with a shitty smug comment, to the applause of bloodthirsty hoards of bootlicking trolls.
Nothing could have prepared you for this. It's hell. All of your work for nothing, any chance of justice or restitution gone. Every promise broken.
It's insidiously evil and I hope every member of their staff (unpaid moderators included) goes bankrupt and loses their home to foreclosure.
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In terms of social, political, and geopolitical harm, no platform beats Facebook. At least in X there are community notes. In Facebook, none of that.
Terms and conditions apply. This site was intentionally made to be as infuriating as possible.
Same here. It worked a few minutes ago, but I guess Lemmy hugged it to death in the meanwhile.
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Eons ago I made a shocksite-"game" where you basically could trick people into visiting, and you got a point for each unique visit. The site was basically a collage of the usual, such as goatse, tubgirl, et.al. I guess that was the worst, and putting no effort into the design didn't help either. Once the /b/-tards on 4chan found out about it, traffic really skyrocketed.
Anyways, years went by, and I didn't have time or interest in maintaining it anymore, so I let the domain name Expire. I chuckled a bit a while back when I realized that the domain had been bought by a jewelry brand, and they used it as a webshop. If only they knew the history.. they obviously haven't checked out the internet archive for that domain.
Almost any "pop" news / science / gossip / chat / lifestyle article site with ad and pop-up blockers off. Just. Jesus Christ. What the fuck. The fact that some people browse the internet like this... AND the fact some people actually made it in the first place..
For horrible design, spam.com does really well
Stileproject and rotten.com were absolute horror shows. Stileproject just seems to be porn now, but I saw a photo once in like 2005 or so of a guy standing on his head with his legs apart with a full size fire extinguisher jammed deeply into his ass.
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When I was a lot younger and dumber I used to hang out on 4chan. Still can’t unsee shoveldog
I'll bite.
4chan both is and is many different places at once.
It's a huge retro gaming community, a rather tame cosplay community, a fantastic literature community, the largest individual DOOM community on the entire internet, a played entirely straight paranormal board that will take you seriously in many instances, and one of the best music forums on the internet, not to mention many of our first introductions to arch and Gentoo came from /g/, and that fancy neofetch you all like so much(quit using it).
SURROUNDED BY pedophiles, nazis, lolcows, narcissists and trolls.
That's correct. Then 2016 happened and infected the whole website.
Yeah and /wg/ is pretty good so long as you scroll past the fash threads.
The decent communities give legitimacy to /pol/