Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Planescape]

Anyone still using Twitter these days is suspect. It's effectively Stormfront Jr. now.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

In practice, most of social media would implode. You might consider that a net gain, but I'm not sure I would.

The populace has long been taught that most parts of the Net are free.

They said the same thing before news sites began going behind paywalls too.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They said the same thing before news sites began going behind paywalls too.

The economic woes of news sites without a national reach (i.e. most of them, once upon a time) suggest that most free readers don't convert to subscribers, although paywalls still bring in more revenue in 2026 than internet advertising does, if you don't have a national audience.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm not sure if the Canadian law that resulted in social media sites not permitting the posting of news sites, to Canadians, was a good or bad thing.

Pro: They aren't profiting from the work of other organizations without compensating them.

Con: All that we're left with is conspiratorial echo chambers.

 

[Reynard]

It sure is weird to be into something that folks a couple decades younger than you are into, too. Sometimes it is refreshing and makes you feel young. Sometimes it makes you wonder what in the hell those people are talking about.

 

[The Soloist]

I'm not sure if the Canadian law that resulted in social media sites not permitting the posting of news sites, to Canadians, was a good or bad thing.

Pro: They aren't profiting from the work of other organizations without compensating them.

Con: All that we're left with is conspiratorial echo chambers.

As a result, I eventually closed all social media and read the news directly on their websites.

 

[prabe]

That is a brilliant plan and cannot go badly in any way.

 

[gnarlygninja]

It sure is weird to be into something that folks a couple decades younger than you are into, too. Sometimes it is refreshing and makes you feel young. Sometimes it makes you wonder what in the hell those people are talking about.

Is that last one not just part of normal interaction with other humans? I feel that way whether the people are older than me, younger than me, the same age as me.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My favorite thing was when people were buying them to impersonate corporate accounts.

Like the "official" Chiquita Banana account tweeting that they had just overthrown the government of Brazil.

And then another official Chiquita Banana account later tweeting that they apologized for the previous false tweet from someone impersonating the company because Chiquita Banana hadn't overthrown a country since 1954.


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Shades of Monty Python!

 

[Ryujin]

Shades of Monty Python!

Why? I don't see anyone being attacked with a piece of fruit.