Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Also, if no one is posting on social media, then what the hell are we all doing right now then?

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

    The internet has been almost entirely enshittified by large corporations and government overreach. I really do wish there was a way to get back to Web 1.0 of mostly user-generated, self-hosted content, without the slow internet speeds or crappy web design motifs.

    Might be possible if everyone is forced underground due to adblockers possibly getting killed off.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Web 2.0 was the advent of user generated content. Web 1.0 was not. It was site-generated content for the most part. Some forums possibly. But it was extremely static and was very poor way to find user generated content.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I blame javascript. If it weren't for people fucking with the time travel machine WE'D be the ones in the original timeline, and no one would have to suffer in this timeline where javascript got invented.

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    My Facebook is only memes, only from the large meme pages, not the ones I like that I have to check manually since they'll never end up in my feed. And news articles.

    It started with Facebook just hiding what your friends are posting. It still happens that someone shares a photo once a year or so, but I will never get shown it. I just browse my friend's profiles manually.

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

    That was extremely dissatisfying about Facebook. I’d see an endless stream of crap from people that I barely knew and didn’t care about at all, and then when I’d look at a profile of someone I actually knew and did want to keep up with, I’d see posts about significant and interesting things that happened in their lives which Facebook never showed me. I tried to get them to stop showing me irritating posts about politics - unfollow people, block people, mark “show less posts like this”, then it would come up with more political posts from people I didn’t even recognize. Meanwhile, oh, colleague got married…. sure, just never show me that post and show me 15 idiotic political memes instead.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This and Reddit are 100% social media. Right now, writing this, we are socializing on this media.

    Maybe I'm wrong, but this is how I've viewed it for years

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    nah. Social Media has a sort of implied entertainment attached to it, which is not a good description of, e.g., this very discussion. This -can- be social media if you're just lurking, but for us conversing here this is now a forum. We're sharing thoughts and discussing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    That's basically how most of Instagram works and is what the article is about. No one knows folks on those platforms either. They aren't "social" anymore. No one shares anything personal, it's all "content" created for millions of followers by influencers and the like. This is probably more like social media than current platforms are. It's closer to what social media was when it started.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    preach. If anyone wants an example of what is meant by "forum" if you're too accustomed to modern takes on it, visit places like news.ycombinator.com or just browse reddit using old.reddit.com and go in some less "popular" subs that aren't just people posting random pics and videos.

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

    I'm assuming you're just here studying nerds for your next blockbuster where you're playing Ada Lovelace or something.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ... I don't know what you're talking about.

    On a purely coincidentally note, how likely would you be in watching an Ada Lovelace biopic? No reason, just asking.

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

    Depends. Is it written by Sydney Padua?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Lemmy isn't social media, it's content aggregation, like reddit used to be

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

    Might as well say Instagram isn't social media either, nor is Facebook or Twitter. Social media is just a platform where one of the biggest parts of it is the commenting system. Its a social media platform for content aggregation. The commenting makes it social.

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