#social media history

[tiktok-singularity]

American politics in a nutshell. Tik tok ban edition.

It’s all about the power, manipulation and control.

[panic-sl0th]

Fellow data hoarders!! I'm collecting screenshots of old social media things for a project I'm working on. BBS boards, The Palace... Places like that. If you have old screenshots, I WAnT tHEM.

You will be given complete credit on them if used! Message me here or you can email at FromHellsHalfAcre at Gmail dot com

Cute doodle for attention, please reblog so I can get this in front of as many eyeballs as possible

[stegzy]

Last Days of Twitter - Part 2

Long form bollocks that nobody will read about social media. By a guy who once taught social media.

Last time I wrote about the end of social media was in November 2022 . I say wrote, in effect I shouted into a dark room and nobody heard me because of all the other people shouting into the dark room. At the time Elon Musk had begun his terminal fiddling with the Twitter platform and people threatened to leave in droves. Some did, and never returned, while others left for a period of time then…

[chuutoro]

the queen is dead: an internet round-up (plus: argentinian journalist celebrates her death)

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

March 21st, 2006: Social media site Twitter is founded.

[beam-of-sunlightbb]

[mysharona1987]

This was yesterday.

They literally stole the dude’s idea though.

[murderandcoffee]

sasha: so, boys, what do you think of our new boss?

tim: he's got a major stick up his ass, but hey, as long as he doesn't make us do team-building exercises, I'm fine!

sasha: mm, seconded. I think he's got potential, though he does get a bit touchy whenever I bring up gertrude. have you noticed that?

tim: yeah, he always gets weird whenever anyone mentions her. I wonder why

sasha: what do you think, martin?

martin: *staring dreamily into his tea*

tim: *waving his hand in front of martin's face* hey, any thoughts on the new boss, big man?

martin: I desire him carnally

[romansmartini]

happy 3 year anniversary to this certified mads mikkelsen facebook post. hope he's having a better one this year

[enjymemink]

Notice the difference between headlines?

Ukrainian children are killed.

Palestinian children are found dead.

Ukrainian children murderers are mentioned

Palestinian children are just dead by ??

[tiktok-singularity]

“Social media platforms are falling apart.”

Users are now more interested in platforms like forums, discord, telegram and many other social platforms.

Where are we all off to next?

[perfectlyvalid49]

Today is January 27th, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I'd like to get some stuff off my chest.

First, I'd like to take a minute to point out that it is not Yom HaShoah, which is the day Israel (and by extension large portions of the Jewish diaspora population) uses as Holocaust Remembrance day. Yom HaShoah is on the 27th of Nisan, a date that was selected to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, centering Jewish resistance in our own story. That date was selected nearly five decades before the UN picked January 27th, which was selected to center our white saviors who came to liberate Auschwitz. This is utter bullshit. And no excuses for not being able to handle a moving date on the Gregorian calendar - April 19th would be the Gregorian equivalent, and it was not selected.

Having said that, given how many infographics I've seen over the last four months about how people are increasingly denying or doubting the Holocaust, I figure any day that acknowledges it is a good thing, so yeah, let's take two days to remember. I think it's worth it.

So given that this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day that centers our goyishe friends, let's talk about how our goyishe friends should observe the day.

1. It is likely that you never learned a lot of details about the Holocaust. Holocaust education usually boils down to, "and the Nazis put Jews in camps in order to kill them, and a lot of Jews were killed in gas chambers, and about 6 million died in all." Go learn some details. Read or watch an account from a survivor.  Learn about the medical experiments, or the death marches. Learn some details about what the gas chambers were actually like. Try to understand the horror. Learn about the SS St. Louis or the Evian conference in 1938 where almost every country on Earth decided it was better to let the Jews die in Germany than to allow them into their own countries.

2. On that note, take the time to understand that anti-semitism neither began nor ended with the Nazis, and that even the "good guys" were incredibly antisemitic.Try to recognize that the antisemitism that was present where you live right now in the 1930s didn't just disappear, it just went into hiding. Think about where it might be hiding now.

Basically, because this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day for the goyim, I want to focus our remembrance of what happened on the goyim. What did they do? What could they have done to help? Why didn't they? We can come back in May for more Jewish focused learning, but the Holocaust could not have happened without A LOT of willing goyim, and I think we should spend the day remembering them and their actions.

And as a side note: if you happen to read this and you've chosen to spend the day engaging in Holocaust denial or Holocaust inversion, then know that my hope for you is that something happens in your life to teach you empathy and basic human decency. And I hope it isn't pleasant for you.

[whereserpentswalk]

Just saw a "feminist" video essay (by someone who just happens to only talk about feminism in relation to cishet white able bodied women) say that the Hays Code was good for women because it "prevented them from sexualizing women by preventing onscreen depictions of sex". Never before has a video said something that made me vocalize my disgust of it's takes, but this did it.

I didn't think I would have to say this but if you defend the Hays code you are horrible and not in any way progressive. And if you don't know what it is please look it up because it's probably the most important piece of history when it comes to all media analysis in the western world.

[prokopetz]

"Vagueposting Ea-nasir" like, I'm pretty sure in order for it to be vagueposting it's gotta be at least a little bit ambiguous who you're talking about. How many Sumerian copper merchants do you know?

[fundgruber]

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, letter racks, 1664/1668