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[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. As a reminder, everything besides uploading a profile picture and information was locked until this post. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Oddly, profile pictures still cannot be swapped out at this time, so hopefully you took a good one. This post is an overflow from the original post here. Feel free to either carry over threads from there or create entirely new ones.

Comments

[parodeity]

[ continued frm here ]

so far it seems to be enabling people to shitpost about cats
and other stuff

but yeah it filled in everyones names w/out asking to my knowledge
creepy right

[standalonehuman]

If your goal was to subvert whatever they're gathering, then you just paste in content from other places on the net. No new information in, nothing to gather.

But even then, wouldn't it be possible to figure out who you are based on what content you chose? You're still you, you've still got patterns of behavior that could be predicted.

Ugh.

[parodeity]

i think mostly people are just dicking around tbh
not subverting anything
like if youre asking me for my opinion here

[standalonehuman]

Fair point. Maybe not everybody's thinking of it that way. There's a lot of suspicion going around, but not enough to keep people from using it to try to figure out what the game is.

[parodeity]

well yeah
also some of us are bored teens
what do you think were gonna do if you give us a new social media app

[standalonehuman]

I'm amazed it hasn't devolved into ASCII penises already.

Hmm. Bored teens.
There might be people even younger on here, aren't there? In which case, why am I thinking our overlords at Retrospec didn't put a content filter in place?

[parodeity]

i can make you some ascii dicks if you really want man
im willing to be there for you in your time of need

yeah theres like a kid ive babysat before running around
so
on second thought i guess ascii dicks would be...bad?

[standalonehuman]

Yeah, there we go. And yet I'm willing to bet the kid is working with better manners than the rest of us here.

Even if there was just a little more transparency about who these guys are, I wouldn't be this paranoid. It's as if they put a lot of forethought into some aspects of their platform, and absolutely none into some others.

[parodeity]

i mean probably
everyone knows manners only get worse with age
the sweet spot is like 6-12ish

i mean any app that has my full name and downloads to my shit without my say so
is worth paranoia tbqh

[standalonehuman]

Kids are just somehow more adorable with their rudeness. The word 'butt' is still funny to them.

Thanks for the info. I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I'm going to be on the lookout for more minors on here. Soon as I find a reliable way to filter posts, believe me, I'll be letting everyone know.

[parodeity]

i mean
the word butt should be funny at any age if you have any sort of a sense of humor