You’re underestimating the propaganda machine . All those right-wing influencers didn’t get to the top of every chart because young people decided them to be popular.
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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Young people decide what’s popular, if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform. Hopefully someone spins up a competitor quickly to grab the people in between the forced “new app”
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Susan Wojiciki genuinely spearheaded the rise of the far right on social media by giving endless support and exposure to the likes of the Paul brothers, Mr.Beast, and right wing commentators who regularly broke ToS but rarely if ever got banned or demonitized for it.
She truly was the Ronald Reagan of social media personalities. May she burn in Hell.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
spongebue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You have to use words like “unalive” and it’s still popular?
_spiffy@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Wouldn’t it be cool if people used loops instead!
kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform
They might also start using another platform. But they’re unlikely to leave completely.
Cory Doctorow put out the first hour of the audiobook on Enshittification for free, and it covers this very well.
fluxion@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
True for us 1%ers, nobody else seems to give a fuck.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
“you sweet, summer child”
akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Dude Facebook hasn’t been cool in a decade and it’s still very much a thing
Zephorah@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
It’s alive due to Messenger and Marketplace.
presbypenguin@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
God, I miss Craigslist.
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Craigslist still exists. Use it.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Craigslist is still around although not as active as Facebook Marketplace.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
wait until the boomer generation stops using it…
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 5 weeks ago
I've been waiting for the boomer generation to stop any of what they're doing for 30 years. I suspect they'll still be a viable political bloc for the next 20 years. And even then, gen x and gen z will pick up right where they left off.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Genz conservative voters tend to be more right wing than their parents or boomers family. That’s why they want to target the younger population
Freefall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The mass die-off of boomers will be a great thing. They ain’t all bad, but they are the worst generation. Absolute poison.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Based on my parents, I’m pretty sure it’s genx keeping it alive.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
At least in 50 more years humanity will finally be free of Zuckerberg
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Lol, you mean when they die? Yeah, that’s not a bad point. They aren’t getting any younger.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
the dieing days are here for the first wave of boomers and it’s only going to increase… day by day
im genx and I’m of the opinion that my parents and their generation are the most selfish and most self centered generation in the history of this country. They spoiled their opportunities to do what they thought was right as young people… so some genxrs are also pieces of shit but most people of my generation understand we are a skipped generation and the young people are the future. We are not like our parents that is for sure.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I just had this funny thought— so boomers adopted and settled into Facebook after millennials made it popular. And then everyone except for boomers stopped actively using it. It’s kind of their “retirement social media platform.”
Now you have TikTok, which the millennials flocked to after GenZ popularized it. Does this mean after Gen Z flees the platform that it’s just going to be the Facebook equivalent for millennials?
DirtMcGirt@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I dunno… I’m a millennial and no one I know uses TikTok, they all use Instagram.Anecdotal, sure, but still.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I’d say the biggest difference is that Millennials tend to be more aware that Boomers of who else is actually using the platform and why, and to have/acquire knowledge about other platforms and transition to something new.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Unlikely. Millennials are internet-native, more savvy than Gen Z if anything. They grew up with more platform changes. I think the next big divide like that is more likely when the next big medium shift happens (maybe AR?) and both millennials and Gen Z don’t jump on the train.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’d be genuinely curious what the real age demographic of regular Facebook users is in America, but I highly doubt Meta would ever release those figures.
Doubt they can even sort out who is and isn’t a not, themselves