What do you think this is?
Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I did it 3 years ago and have not looked back! I do miss keeping up with some friends and Facebook events are nice but the toxicity just got to be to much
RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 10 months ago
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Though it’s probably technically social media, it’s very different from everything else at the moment (other than perhaps reddit).
I feel this is much more like an old forum. It’s pretty anonymous, you subscribe to things you like and want to hear more about. Comment if you like, lurk otherwise. Nobody’s interleaving my subscribed posts with “suggested” posts and adverts. Mainly, it’s small and probably almost nobody I know in real life uses it.
There’s currently no big corporate users, far-right news channels, “influencers” etc, just nice, safe “Cats, Dad Jokes, Star Trek Memes, Linux News”.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Samsies on the timeline. It was 2020, I was deployed to the desert, and I was taking classes for a Masters Degree in Public Health.
I could NOT mentally deal with all the Covid misinformation flying around, and my family’s love of Trump. But I for some reason also couldn’t stop myself from checking it constantly.
So, I deleted it, and the whole 30 days wait time was hella annoying because I had to stop myself from logging in. But when it was finally gone, I felt SUCH an immense relief.