They’re hard to destroy until something (people view as) better shows up. My buddy Tom from MySpace got out while the getting was good.
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morrowind@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Unfortunately, if twitter has shown us anything, it’s social networks are ridiculously hard to destroy, even when actively self-sabotaging
Stern@lemmy.world 7 months ago
sizzler@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Digg on the other hand did not see it coming.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 7 months ago
God I miss pre-Digg Reddit.
stoly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re back there now! Lemmy now is pretty much like Reddit pre-2008.
Stern@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They were falling off as of V3, V4 deffo killed them off though.
Nowadays they’re (kinda) back as a daily dose website.
Psythik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dude cashed out right at the peak, then took his money and travels the world with it. Tom never has to work another day in his life.
SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 months ago
Well time to make a good open source alternative.
dakku@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Some kind of federation
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
In the proper space, that’s a real enterprise
misk@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
TikTok is no more a social media platform than YouTube is. I’m puzzled why some people call it that and my only guess is that they’ve never used it.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
“Social media” just means a public place where the plebs can upload content and interact with other plebs via the internet without knowing a lick of html, Internet slang, or anything technical really. If they are so lucky, some might even be graced by the attention of a minor internet celebrity, the modern day patricians.
misk@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I agree, it all went downhill when we stopped having liturgy exclusively in Ecclesiastical Latin. Plebs should know their place!
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Whe Internet communities were still a relatively niche thing and I (preteen to early teen) was already on the Internet, I had great dreams that in the future everyone would be on it and this would cause society to be awesome.
Everyone is now on the Internet. This has not made society awesome.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
You mean the websites where people can be social around media … is not a social media?
misk@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
People seem to be selectively stretching definition of social media but are rather inconsistent in applying this label. Yeah, plenty of platforms and websites can be described as social media but we generally go with calling them by primary function. YouTube and TikTok are video platforms first. Reasons why Twitter and TikTok are going downhill are vastly different.
stoly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
More than anything, it’s that people resist change. They’ll stick to what they are doing until sometime after it becomes very clear that they shouldn’t any longer.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s hard because once you got a place where all your friends are, it will be extremely hard to leave because it’s not like they’ll follow you and move to something like mastadon, pixelfed, or lemmy.
My friends are on Instagram, if I wanted to find my classmates, they would all be on there. My parents are on facebook, there’s no chance for those old guys to move to something else.
negativeyoda@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Instagram is absolute garbage compared to how it used to be. It’s still massive. Once people are hooked, it’s hard to wean them off. People were livid at reddit, but only a fraction of those who spoke up are here
Speculater@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The average user doesn’t even know anything happened.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
API? That’s like being gay or trans right?
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Instagram is not actually worse than before, sure, the content there is worse, but people spend more time on it, and as such it is doing its job as a social media platform well
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
I hate it that being successful and being a piece of shit are not mutually exclusive
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Enshitification is a milestone in the life of a product now.
loobkoob@kbin.social 7 months ago
What's changed about Instagram? I'm not familiar enough to know, but I don't feel like I've heard anything all that controversial about it outside of Meta's general "pay to remove ads" thing. I certainly haven't heard anything about systemic enshittification like I have with Twitter, Reddit and TikTok; have I missed anything?
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It used to be you saw what you subscribed to. Now every third posted is suggested. Many of them have paid to be suggested, not even talking about the ads which seem like every other post. It used to be about pictures, now it’s all reels, loud and obnoxious.
loobkoob@kbin.social 7 months ago
Ahh, that's the same path Facebook went down a decade ago then. Yay, capitalism...
poppy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I know it doesn’t fix the fact the ruined main feed, but if you click on “Instagram” on the top left then select “Following” from the drop-down that appears, you will get a chronological feed of only the people you follow—no ads no suggested posts. Only reels if they were posted by someone you follow.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If only you were commenting on an article that discusses what happened to Instagram.