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Reddit is a Dying Mall (www.staygrounded.online)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 103 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Facebook never "died", but no one goes there anymore either. Reddit will be the same.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    What is Facebook these days? My grandma spends all day on it, she hardly speaks...just swiping...when I sneak a peek, it's just chain-mail-like bullshit one after the other with a few disguised ads for things she can't afford in between...ugh :vomit:

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    lol, exactly. that is literally reddit for me now as well

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago*

    Yea, I checked worldnews today: there are these bot-like irrelevant comments on major subs, small subs abandoned...askhistorians is a little slow...maybe people are just on holiday having fun and such :D, is instagram full of holiday bragging?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I remember describing to my mom what Facebook was becoming back in like 2013/14 and she goes "Huh, sounds like what happened with email."

    The service went from useful communication to social media style chain forwarding nonsense pretty quickly, and they went the same way with FB.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And still email is not dead yet! I hope it's starting to become clear to people that protocols last much longer than platforms, even if platforms look like they can test new things faster.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Fuck yeah email!

    Good thing we got that sorted in the early stages of internet before corporations got their hands on it. Otherwise we'd have to create separate accounts to send and receive emails from gmail, outlook, and yahoo.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know about that, email is still great at what it does. It's less that it died and more that people moved on to more real-time communication that fit their needs better, with email still being used for what it is actually good for.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Oh absolutely, it's still highly used in a professional environment. I just feel like personal email went through the same thing and now that social media exists it's just another way to communicate again.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    And then you can't even do that because Zuck filled the feed with 99% ads and "recommended" groups. Sure, there's a friend's feed now, but it doesn't load 95% of the time. Facebook isn't dead because people didn't like the site, Facebook is dead because Zuckerfuck drove a spike through its heart and then lit the corpse on fire after dousing it with gasoline.

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