It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Translation: more and more people overcome their social media addiction and adapt a healthy usage pattern.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not really what the article says though. Sounds like people are just doomscrolling curated content instead of creating content themselves.

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    • Octavio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah. Doomscrolling curated content is a healthy usage pattern. Right? Right?!?

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’'m doomscrolling this thread personally

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    • eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That also means less interesting content in general, which leads to a decrease in doomscrollers

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• Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So this entire article is based on a single person’s anecdotal experience, other than this bit:

  Bruening isn’t alone. Despite the efforts of big incumbents and buzzy new apps, the old ways of posting are gone, and people don’t want to go back. Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, admitted that users have moved on to direct messages, closed communities, and group chats.

  This links to another article from the same site, and the only quote I can find related to any of this is this one:

  DMs are also crucial for younger users. “If you look at how teens spend their time on Instagram, they spend more time in DMs than they do in stories, and they spend more time in stories than they do in feed,”

  This Instagram head guy says nothing about how “nobody posts on social media anymore”, just that teens spend more time in DMs and stories than in the feed. This just in, kids do things differently than previous generations! Mind blown, A fucking plus journalism right there. You’d think you’d be able to properly quote your own god damn article properly lol.

  Honestly I don’t even give a shit about this content, I’m just so sick of biased opinion articles based on the writer’s feelings at the time filling my feed like they’ve uncovered something revolutionary.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welcome to modern “journalism”.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I really hate this kind of journalism. I have a friend who is at the top of this food chain: lifestyle section of the NYT. He is always posting weird calls for help to Facebook. “Is your dog experiencing flatulence caused by CBD supplements you bought online? I want to talk to you about an upcoming article.”

    It’s like the article is written before the sources are found. Totally stupid and backward. An endless shitpile of made up articles on topics that make elderly white people feel like they are tapped into “trends.”

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    • Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s 100% how journalism works. If you’re an expert in a field a journalist might call you asking to confirm a statement or a fact that they know. If you correct them and tell them they’re wrong, or that it’s not that simple, they’ll just go find a different expert to confirm their narrative.

      Now, to be fair, this style of research isn’t exactly wrong, so long as the writer really is fairly knowledgeable in their own right, and is just looking for an outside source they can point to so it’s not just their own opinion. The problem in the style of writing is when the author does this for things they they don’t understand very well or are just their opinions.

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  • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m 30 and as far as I remember everything always was “in the DMs” for all the different social circles I’ve had. Public posts were always a rare thing for special events or so. MSN, ICQ, Skype, WhatsApp, Discord,…

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Megalomaniac billionaires ruined social media in their effort to control the narrative and ruin privacy. It was a neat idea when it was just a way to keep up with people you were interested in.

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  • Demuniac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well people turning out to be mostly idiots didn’t help

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That effort is the reason social media emerged. The Web before them was sufficient, it had human-curated website directories and RSS (though that I began noticing later), and web rings, and in general was fulfilling its purpose.

    Now, the idea was to centralize everything under Zuck or someone else’s control. And from the very beginning it was even more ominous than now, cause people usually knew then that in the Web you should be pseudonymous, except for your personal webpage, and also that what gets out doesn’t get back in, and that an account on some site doesn’t belong to you.

    What I’m disgusted with personally is how the transition to social media was spearheaded by clueless illiterate people, and instead of protecting the culture everybody else just decided that they are right and we are wrong.

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• VITecNet@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “No one is posting on social media anymore”

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  • spez_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not just you

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fuck spez

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    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good bot

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• 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Social media is dead#

  Finally, some good news.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Parasocial or antisocial media would fit the function of these platforms better.

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    • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Advertisement Delivery Network

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, we are on social media now.

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    • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tell that to my therapist.

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• query@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I signed up for Facebook for the first time ever, to comment on a local page about a local issue, and was first banned by Facebook for nothing in particular. Had to put my phone number in to reactivate. Also found I wasn’t able to post if I included a link, a link to a government website, but I guess that’s a very basic spam filter for new accounts. Then made some comments back and forth with no one really even talking to me. Then about a week later with no activity, my account had been banned again, and now Facebook wants a photo. I don’t even have photos online, and I don’t see how they could use that to verify my identity, so that’s where I stopped.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s standard practice for Facebook and it’s been for several years now. It’s simultaneously a way to combat bots and a way to start collecting data about you in case you turn out to be a juicy real human. They want your pic and your contacts so they can start establishing your real identity and recognize you in pictures posted by others. If you don’t help them do that you’re worthless to them so they block you.

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My mum was briefly banned on FB the other day and she’s the most inoffensive person on the planet. This is an account that’s maybe a decade old. They reinstated her account after she appealed so something seems broken with their banning system.

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  • escapesamsara@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a serious problem I think isn’t actually talked about enough. There is a ‘ring of trust’ on most social media now that in my opinion goes far too far; if you don’t have enough algorithmically determined ‘trust,’ you’ll be booted off without a way to appeal. Reddit shadowbans the vast majority of new accounts, but hasn’t been able to cut down on spambots; Facebook by its nature needs ridiculous amounts of personal information but even then doesn’t actually use it to assign more trust since bot-owners can supply generated information that’s equally as valid; really all social media, especially if you do anything at all to protect your privacy, assumes you’re a spambot first, then only lets you participate after you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt you might be a human. I understand we’re already half way into developing a dead internet, but there’s no reason we need to go full throttle into it by limiting actual humans from signing up past a certain point in a product’s lifespan.

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• Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait, what the heck is BeReal? I’ve never heard of it before?

  Does that mean I’m old now?

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even us old people should know that he’s the guy from Cypress Hill

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  • Eximius@lemmy.lt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Took you a while, but yes.

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  • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a new Chaturbate.

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  • stefenauris@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I literally had the same reaction lol

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• Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Social media is dead. Long live decentralize social media!

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• InternetTubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The problem with online social media is being exposed to argumentative loudness for basic things that shouldn’t be a big deal.

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  • Kikkertje@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You have a great way with words

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• TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s not true. I post on Lemmy and Mastodon, which I consider social media. I don’t think that websites that communication based on algorithms aiming to serve unsocial purposes should be considered social media.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Barely anyone else does though, thus the point.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Barely anyone else does though

      That’s the mantra that certain people would want others to believe.

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    • marmo7ade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Show me the stats to back that up.

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    • TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A city and a village are both social structures. I prefer to live in a nice, small village rather than isolated in a horrible city, even if there is only a small number of people who communicate with me. I love this place. Facebook? Not really. Big media? Not at all.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think there’s two types really. There’s the “hey family, look at my photos and shit that nobody else will care about” social media, and “screaming opinions into the void” social media.

    Lemmy and Mastodon are the latter. I guess you can use Mastodon as the former, but I suspect there are better places for that, even if they’re currently spread across a dozen instant messaging apps.

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    • TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      From one perspective, all screaming is in the void.

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  • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was gonna react without reading the article, because the interaction is what I use lemmy for, and what I used reddit for, the social part of social media.

    Anyway, I thought the post was talking about things we like sharing with our friends, families, colleagues, and other groups of acquaintances, which was confirmed by reading the first anecdote, which is of someone talking about sharing what they cooked.

    I have always preferred messaging groups for such sharing, so to me it’s not too much of a shock, but I have noticed what the article claims and have enjoyed being able to withdraw from most vapid forms of social media without disconnecting from friends entirely.

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• JdW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My Fantasy and SF book lovers goup on Facebook has more posts per day than I can read and gets new members every day. My music groups on Facebook have even more posts and content. Linkedin has more and more social posts (not a good thing, but hardly on the decline)

  Article is clearly written by someone with no initiatve or personality or insight.

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  • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bruh they used “BeReal” as if it belonged in the same conversation as Instagram, and Meta. That alone puts them way out there.

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    • JdW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good point!

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• nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not in any group chats so I’m just lonely and depressed out of my mind how about that

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LoL same, but I apparently refuse to throw every ounce of myself into one hobby or am just a stranger so not to be trusted or invited to stuff so I too shall be lonely with you but very very separate.

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  • violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What kind of things are you into?

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• ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  WTF is BeReal?

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  • AteshgaRubyTeeth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like the other comments say it’s an app which prompts users to post a picture at “the same” time. Its not actually the same time due to timezones.

    The idea behind it is that you don’t ge to pick the perfect time for a pic when you’re at that great location or you’re looking especially cute. This means you’ll get an insight in the real life of someone.

    Practically that means you’ll just see a lot of pictures of your friends whilst they’re laying on the couch 2 feet deep in a bag of crisps.

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  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BeReal hit #1 on the app stores by promising a more genuine social experience. It was popular for months, but the gimmick got boring and it fell off.

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    • DSX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, my friends and I used it a lot for about 6 months before we just stopped. I saw the notifications every day but I never did anything interesting enough that I wanted to post it so I just uninstalled.

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  • cynetri@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s an app that encourages users at a random time to share an image of their immediate surroundings, trying to kind of push an authentic feel. I remember hearing about it from some memes a year or so ago

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t that, like, a massive invasion of privacy?

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So lots of pictures of feet in front of toilets…

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No idea. This feels like a stealth ad for whatever that is. They’re putting it up there with social media people actually use so maybe people will consider it, but this is literally the first time I’ve seen the name.

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    • iminahurry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agree. Never heard of bereal either

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Clearly it’s Cypress Hill’s lead voice … oh wait… I’m old

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• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wtf is bereal ? Lol

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  • notnotmike@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My Zoomer sister-in-law told me about it. It’s an app that will randomly prompt everyone to take a picture using both the front and back cameras and you have a limited amount of time to do it. The idea being that because it’s random you can’t really prepare anything beforehand so the content is more “real” and everyone can see what they all do day to day

    I’m a fan of the reality part but not so much a fan of allowing your life to be timed by a social media company

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    • Uniquitous@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is the zoomerest shit that ever zoomed.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never heard of it either, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is some kind of PR for it!

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same - but after diggin’ a little i found that there’s already a new app called beFake. With beReal you have to take a photo when prompted - it takes 2 photos - back and front - so people can see you and what you are looking at. Filters are now allowed.

      I think the point of this app, is to show yourself as you are in the location you happen to be in that moment, unfiltered

      If you don’t take the pics when prompted, you loose points, credit or karma ( don’t know what they call their virtual point system )

      beFake ist the opposite, the logic is the same - yo get prompted to take the pics - but here you have an AI Image generator, to which you have to tell in what fake world you want to be portrayed in and you can ( or must ) filter yourself to the max lol

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    • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It kinda had a small viral moment in my social circles about half a year ago or so…

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• Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I quit looking at Facebook so, so long ago and stopped posting anything myself well before I stopped visiting. In my experience the only people still posting are people I didn’t want to see anything from or just sponsored content, ads and people pushing their businesses. Everything’s so monetized, curated and awful.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For a long time I’ve posted actively to Facebook and then at the end of the year I have my pictures and top posts printed up in a nice “yearbook.” There’s a service that does this (but I’m not here to advertise them). Anyway I am raising kids through these years so sharing milestones and pictures with faroff friends and family is very rewarding.

  But I’ve stopped posting so much that I don’t think there will be a yearbook for this year. It’s just not worth it anymore. Not enough people are going to see my posts, either because they’re no longer visiting or the fucking algorithm has something catchier to show them.

  It’s sad because my kids love those books and leaf through them all the time, like a kind of family album. I guess it’s time for another solution.

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  • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get a yearbook from my iphone camera without posting to anything, just from taking photos. Social media isn’t needed for that feature.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep I will probably go for something like that. The Facebook based one offers more than just the pictures though. Also comments and text posts and link posts, etc.

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• szczuroarturo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am not suprised in the slightest. They are extremly pointless ,i simply do not really care that somone is on bahamas or whatewers. The only thing i even used facebook for were a specialized groups and Messenger. The only real social media i cared about was reddit and similars simply beacuse they encouraged discussion about stuff and provided anonimity ( and anonimity helps massiviely when your opinions arent exatcly popular ).

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• stefenauris@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  wtf is “Be Real”? I never even heard of it. Am I that old already??

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• skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean I post pretty regularly to my fediverse accounts

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess I’m not really posting this 🤷🏻‍♂️

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• abs_solution@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t care, never will. I have abandonned all interest in social media, and centralized platforms that rely on targetted advertisements and that just keep selling your identity to corporates, through lemmy I have learned that MORE control (over your life) an some times bring MORE peace of mind. Right now i have quit fb and instagram, and for it im a happier and more cerene person

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• SteWi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the reason group chats are gaining is because we are so numbed by all the public platforms. Between doom scrolling and ads noone pays any attention to personal posts anymore.

  For me personally I would even go one step further and say that I’m really annoyed by people force-feeding me their peronal life/experiences.

  Now they start (ab)using group chats for it:

  A group created for organizing rock climbing activities: All of a sudden filled with photos of this summers vacation. OK, we are friends and know each other, but still…

  Another one was for a specific training of a mountaineering club, people who just met for this one occasion: Half a year later someone starts posting photos of their latest trip. And then the next, …

  Maybe in my case it’s the generation that started sm (lol) with attention seeking extrovert posts that does not get any attention on fb/x anymore, so they go to group chats.

  What might still be true for younger people is that with all the noise on the internet a group chat may be a place that gives you a manageable chunk of content with a private touch that makes perosonal involvement worthwile/doable again.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Other apps like Dispo, Poparazzi, and Locket have all used various gimmicks to try and recapture social media’s halcyon days — each had a moment in the sun at the top of the US Apple app-store charts — but none have truly broken through.

  For instance, the content creator Nina Haines launched a group called SapphLit, a self-described “sapphic book club born out of the queer BookTok community.”

  Victoria Johnston, a 22-year-old software engineer, imagines the ideal social-media platform as a “safe space where people can just connect and you don’t feel pressured to have a big following or a presence or be really well known.”

  And as more users and creator communities migrate toward closed spaces, the behemoths like Instagram are also trying to capitalize on this reality by introducing features like paid-subscription services that offer exclusive group chats.

  Lia Haberman, an adjunct professor at UCLA Extension and an advisor for the American Influencer Council, said that Gen Alpha, the age cohort of 13 and younger, are “not embracing traditional social-media platforms and customs.”

  It’s hard to know how the change will affect the online atmosphere over the long term — some evidence suggests the shift will create a healthier digital experience, but it also risks further dividing people into like-minded echo chambers.

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• NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still miss Google+, my friends and my sharing is based on the subject not my relation to my friends.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m in a few sea kayaking Facebook groups which are pretty active, and being based around a common interest, there is some genuinely good conversation happening.

  It’s a shitshow outside our little walled garden though, I just post about my trips and that’s it.

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• ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Non-paywalled link: archive.ph/wXMp5

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• BeautifulMind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At this point facebook is like a needy ex that won’t let go. I haven’t posted or logged on there in a long time but it keeps on sending email and push notifications

  I know, I can turn that sort of thing off, but omg will it STFU already

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• Bjornir@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anecdotal evidence, but in my group of friends, the only platform where people, me included, post regurlaly is bereal and I suppose it’s because it’s more like a group chat when you only watch what your friends post. We are older than teens though.

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• TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But I don’t know anyone to be in a group chat with! That’s why I use social media 😭

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• yoppa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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