[cyberlab]

Site seems down for me. I remember a tool for Twitter where you could automatically engage with people posting positive or uplifting tweets (better known as sentiment analysis). I forget the name of the tool, but it would search for any tweet with a simple smiley like `:-)` plus a keyword that you pick, and it would favorite it, tricking people into thinking your interaction was an 'organic' one.

Over time Twitter naturally would have accounts with nothing but performative anxiety present, as Twitter (at least for me) is more an antisocial network, not a social network highlighting our more positive nature (Think Instagram, and TikTok for contrast).

[bckr]

> Over time Twitter naturally would have accounts with nothing but performative anxiety present

I had this thought two days ago—that Twitter is largely a repository of mental health issues on display. The next day I visited a developer's Twitter profile, and it was just bad jokes with a general theme of mental health. I created a new profile recently in order to interact with developers but I will never again enter into this performative aspect of the website.

[oxymoran]

What in the world is positive about Instagram or Tiktok? Twitter is clearly worse, but Instagram inspires nothing but vapid voyeurism and tiktok very well could be an act of espionage.

[drusepth]

Compared to Twitter, anything else is a shining light of social media.

Instagram may be nothing but vapid voyeurism, but the posts there are generally (fake) messages of "I am enjoying my life, look at it!" My stream's a bunch of travel photos and/or interesting things. Even if it's shallow or attention-seeking, it's a far cry from the flood of hatred and filth that spews from Twitter's fringe.

TikTok's a bit more varied (and feels more akin to reddit, which has a lot of ups and downs), but still doesn't feel as bad as Twitter.

[shard]

If Twitter is Wrath, then IG is Pride and Envy, and TikTok is Sloth and Gluttony.

[npteljes]

Couldn't you follow the similarly positive accounts on Twitter too? It doesn't seem fair to compare Twitter's fringes to your personally curated feed on another site.

[posix_compliant]

Sure, but we’re talking in generalities here, and Instagram does have the veneer of pseudo-positivity as the norm as opposed to Twitter.

[andrepd]

> a social network highlighting our more positive nature (Think Instagram, and TikTok for contrast)

How so?

[bckr]

These apps have a lot of videos of people dancing. These sites also tend to have decent comedic content, similar to what used to be on Vine.