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Mar. 3rd, 2020 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavidk if I've seen this specific quibble voiced but one of the many things that makes me feel uneasy about current social media (especially twitter) is the ... constant low grade whiplash in newsfeed/accounts?
like you can have cute pokemon art, cute FE art, [horrific appeal for help against a warcrime], aesthetiq posts, [teeth-grindingly incorrect low-key radical political misinformation], more fanart...
and I don't know how to word it precisely but something makes me think that's partly where we went wrong - crossing too many streams too quickly without ... the wisdom to ask if there's any unforseen consequences? not that there's no place for important social discussions - but that it almost cheapens those deeply horrific, tragic tragedies when you place it right next to fanart? and almost blunts it? (and dare i say - almost vice versa?)
Like I constantly look at what went *right* with dA and no it was never perfect - but there was always an understanding that art took center stage and you could ramble about personal shit in the journals but it was always secondary and in a separate feed. (god, i would fucking /love/ separate dA-esque feeds for twitter, and the ability to mute all text posts - that'd almost fix all of my complaints about the site on the spot.)
but like - there's a deep low-level anxiety/ever-open psychic wound i feel whenever I used to see those posts mixed in, I've since curated my feed to avoid that mix and to focus on actual actions when possible - but ... ugh.
idek i feel like i've been complaining a lot lately about macro shit that can't be changed, apologies.
like you can have cute pokemon art, cute FE art, [horrific appeal for help against a warcrime], aesthetiq posts, [teeth-grindingly incorrect low-key radical political misinformation], more fanart...
and I don't know how to word it precisely but something makes me think that's partly where we went wrong - crossing too many streams too quickly without ... the wisdom to ask if there's any unforseen consequences? not that there's no place for important social discussions - but that it almost cheapens those deeply horrific, tragic tragedies when you place it right next to fanart? and almost blunts it? (and dare i say - almost vice versa?)
Like I constantly look at what went *right* with dA and no it was never perfect - but there was always an understanding that art took center stage and you could ramble about personal shit in the journals but it was always secondary and in a separate feed. (god, i would fucking /love/ separate dA-esque feeds for twitter, and the ability to mute all text posts - that'd almost fix all of my complaints about the site on the spot.)
but like - there's a deep low-level anxiety/ever-open psychic wound i feel whenever I used to see those posts mixed in, I've since curated my feed to avoid that mix and to focus on actual actions when possible - but ... ugh.
idek i feel like i've been complaining a lot lately about macro shit that can't be changed, apologies.
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Date: 2020-03-03 03:21 am (UTC)Like, yeah, TV and the internet at large were stepping stones to THIS - but christ. I hate it. It's a nightmare. At least I don't have to watch television for my fucking job!!