Favorite social media site(s)?

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Youtube (but for me it's not a social experience as I like to desensitise there)
Devientart ( a great place to meet artists, with a social aspect to it through profiles and comments and direct messages)
Discord ( again, a great place to meet people with similar Interests)
Twitter

I detest reddit

Lately I've been trying tiktok. It's Interesting, a little bit too stimulating. But In small amounts it's a Jolly time, the creaters seem to be more Into Interacting with their fan base too which is a positive

Back in the early days of the internet the original usenet forums and bulletin boards were an autist's delight. People shared their thoughts and knowledge without self censorship. Arguments raged, many were entirely un-moderated but you got to see what people actually thought, even if they were wrong.

Importantly there was no shame in being wrong. Turned out a lot of commonly held beliefs and stories were urban legends or just part of the perceptional mythos. It was good because people can, on occasion, be interesting so long as they are telling the truth as they see it. People tended to realise quite quickly how little they knew or how little they thought they knew was entirely true. Everybody had been fooled by something, big groups of people collectively remembered things that hadn't actually happened or had completely different recollections of things that most certainly had happened. Your only identity was an email address, which unless you were at a university with an address search function was pseudonymous.

An interesting, and entirely non political, instance of this was the efficacy of martial arts. Just as black belts in various disciplines were being beaten to a pulp in the first mixed martial arts tournaments several generations of internet users were of one mind that the Kung Fu fighter types were far better than they actually were, often being elevated to almost religious like figures of veneration. Reality met mythos and reality won.

There's remarkably few places on the modern internet which even slightly resemble the original. Minds.com is my favourite though most merely resemble indoctrination camps with 1 dimensional caricatures mouthing mod pleasing platitudes. Reddit, facebook and twitter being the worst examples.

Is there moderation on Facebook and Twitter? If there is, it's barely noticeable. People just rant and rave to their heart's content, which is why I left. I prefer civilised discussions, not ranting and raving.

Oh yes, Facebook groups have moderation. Terrible places though, I kept out of groups.

Twitter however...it was bad pre-Elon with little moderation. But after he arrived, I don't think there was any moderation.

Yes I closed my Twitter account permanently. It's interesting how many of my friends insisted on staying there however. I suppose they just like arguing and being trolled. Hopefully it doesn't mean they support Elon.