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Decided to make an account here mainly because I just don't like the formatting of other large social media platforms like twitter or instagram. These sites are made for shorter, smaller blurbs of text with very little room for letting you just talk about a given subject without either making more posts of the same thing or creating threads that go on for hundreds of separate posts. Nowadays they're mostly relegated to being budget ifunny with meme accounts popping up left and right, leaving very little room on your feed for actual people or even art accounts. I won't even mention tiktok as a social media platform here as it's really it's own thing, but I will say that I do not like it, due to similar reasons as mentioned above; the platform being overtaken by nothing but short form memes, lack of a sense of individuality, like every one of those videos could've been made by another person and they would be the same/ you wouldn't notice. Never used it and hopefully never will.
Another part of the reason why I'm trying to move away from such things is linked to how the companies running those sites treat their users. Now I'm not even talking about the selling of private data, or feeding your artwork to speed up the process of machine learning, all of those are valid reasons to dislike those platforms but there is one big one that bugs me the most, and that being how the corpos view the purpose of social media. You see the way that most modern platforms are designed, they have these algorithms that cater everything on the website in such a way to keep you stuck on there for as long as possible. They just want you to mindlessly keep scrolling through mountains of videos, memes and whatever else, just to have you on there. Just to make the numbers go up, the numbers of how many people are visiting their site for that long and how many ads they can shove in their face to make as much cash as possible. They encourage users to follow potentially dangerous trends just to have their 5 minutes of fame, to get more money. Hell, I'd say that even I am no exception, sure I might be making videos for youtube for the fun of it, but I'd be lying if I said that I didn't get a motivation boost when I got the partnership. But okay I feel like I've ranted about this long enough so I'll wrap this post up.
Basically I really like what spacehey offers to it's users. Taking strong inspirations from the 2000's era of the internet it incorporates a lot of elements that i'm quite fond of, like how you can customize your profile in any way you want as opposed to only having a unique profile picture and banner. And while it's inspired by that early era, I'd say that it's more accessible than back then due to html coding resources being more widespread (granted I'm speaking off assumptions, as I wasn't old enough to be able to read back then xd). It's also way easier maintaining a profile than hosting your own website (speaking from experience). It's really nice to have some place on the internet that you can truly call your own, being able to yap about your interests without being bombarded by useless junk that elon snusk or whoever else sends onto my front page, and I hope spacehey can be that place.
Thanks for reading through all this (if you didn't just scroll to the end ;) ), hope you stick around for whatever else I think to write about.
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maciel
yeah! i even think modern social medias made my attention span very small, and this kinda sucks when i'm about to read longer texts, like this one. but i take my time and try to heal that :)