Web interactions and sites that you don't understand - The Bear and Badger

beano

PS I dont knwo what periscope is

g.man

Periscope is afaik a sort of way of broadcasting stuff live with your phone's camera.
When it launched one of the young AP's who does the Twitter stuff for BT Sport thought it would be a TV revolution to film us with it on the TV gantry at footy matches while we were covering the game.
Lasted for about thirty seconds before I told him to fuck off.

never came back

g.man

AJ

Twitter are proper fucking themselves over by not realising what's good about it. Whoever's in charge over there needs a slap.

AJ

Periscope is laughable because it's been tried so many times before.

hunk

On the flipside, I kindof like imgur.

Escape

I don't use them for the simple fact that I find the conflation of millions of souls depressing. A conjoined whizzing-by of life. Reaching into that void isn't the way to be appreciated; running away from it is.

IanHamlett

[he wrote on a social network]

Escape

Social club.

Facewon

Proper hammering reddit now. Don't have to touch comments etc, but for good articles and news, it's actually awesome.

Skerret

It's dead handy for as it happens stuff, ant-hive. Also for jumping to the top of the pile for "which is the best" questions. And a whole bunch of other things. Just maintain a safe distance.

djchump

AMA's can be pretty interesting as well.
I should probably sign back in with the account I made ages ago and setup subscriptions to the subreddits that interest me, as too often the front page will have some kind of devastatingly sad story from world news or whatever float up there.

Plus, you know, cat pics, gifs and earth porn.

superflyninja

Oh man there are some horrendous stories on reddit. It actually kinda puts me off using it.

AJ

I've given up with most media because of that. I don't need to hear about horrible shit I can't do anything about any more.

mk64

isn't reddit 4chans other ego?

Dark Soldier

Wat

Tempy

Mr Reddit & Dr Chan m8

Facewon

mk64 wrote:

isn't reddit 4chans other ego?

Do you mean "alter ego?"

And do you mean in the sense that it's a pretty unfiltered hot mess of the worst of the web?

If so, I'd say, with limited experience, only if that's what you want it to be. Seems very much a case of how you use it, how active you are in commenting and what subreddit's and such you choose to add/read.

I'm yet to read a comment on it since using the app on my phone. Purely for article/news sourcing.

(NBA and Philosophy subreddits seem fairly safe places anyhoo, especially when you avoid random comment hot takes.

Kow

I still have no idea how to use Reddit outside of googling a topic and adding reddit to the search. Is there an easier way to use it?

Facewon

I dunno, I've treated it like a news aggregator like flipboard or feedly or whatever, followed sub reddits of interest and just nabbed articles/news of interest.

The user content side, as far as I see it, I haven't touched.

IanHamlett

That's how I used Reddit for a couple of years, then I started posting. Then I started getting annoyed with the upvote system, which encourages subs to become echo-chambers. Then I started noticing the astroturfing. The final straw was mods that delete stories they disagree with.

It's still a very useful site tho.

Kow

Do you have to sign up to follow subs and threads etc?

Facewon

Yeah. Sign up is piss easy though.

Kow

I'm lazy to add more sign ups and passwords to my life.

Facewon

Or enough words to sentences.

IanHamlett

It's a nothing account though. You don't even need to verify it with an email address. If it gets hacked,the hacker has got nothing.

Funkstain

Kow wrote:

Do you have to sign up to follow subs and threads etc?

I haven't signed up to anything - I've added a few RSS feeds to my Feedly account of subs I like and the "front page" (most popular stories). Some of the comment threads (very few but some) have had me laughing harder at the internet than anything else - Face you may be missing out.

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