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

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• Rolando_Cueva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Twitter’s so annoying, they constantly show me the same ads. Was it different before Musk?

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  • regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dunno, quit after Musk took over so no idea what it’s like now or why you’d stay on it.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The ads went out of control in like 2019 when the post 2015 social media boom started to cool. One of the knockoff effects of 2020 pandemic is it artificially extended the life of social media companies for like 2 years.

    The funniest part of the musk buyout of twitter is the company would probably be doing very similar bullshit if he didnt buy them out, probably in a slightly more savvy way, but they’d still be dripping money.

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  • sewerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I heard it used to have very solid ad management options. It was good for business too, as direct feedback/curation = more appropriate ads = more valuable ads. But i guess as algorithm shit and data harvesting “automated” the process it went downhill, and advertisers fleeing twitter post $8 checkmark was the coup de grace

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• MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good. Let it die.

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• RunningSpaces@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have been wanting to get back to making stuff on social media but due to work and no longer being the IDGAF teenager I get nervous on what to talk about.

  Like I was hoping to do a podcast for my Facebook friends but I only uploaded one episode cause I want to do a few about how work sucks. But then I worry it’ll be depressing.

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• GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Noticed this on reddit’s All/Hot in the last two years or so. Not even just the posts but the comments in particular were very Bot-like. Front page was almost all recycled reposts and thinly veiled marketing.

  Before doing Lemmy full time I scrolled through Red with the official app just to see if I could compromise somewhere, but it smelt of Dead Internet to me.

  Dead Internet Theory in short is a conspiracy theory that most of the Internet is just algorithms and bots posting back and forth at each other for marketing purposes and to nudge people’s beliefs. It’s dead because theres hardly any humans posting.

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  • igorlogius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    sounds like something a bot would post +1

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    • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh yeah but can you handle '); DROP TABLE *; ??

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• Fhek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Take me back to MSN Messenger.

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  • regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    nudge

    nudge

    nudge

    hey u there

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t get group chats. It seems like the worst parts of IRC had a baby with the worst part of internet forums and created thing destined to make you always late to the party.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And woe betide those who get into a group chat with a bunch of chatty people who never stop texting. Then you turn off notifications for it and you miss all kinds of things.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OMG this. Every chat app needs a way to rate-limit notifications, but I’ve yet to encounter a single one that does.

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  • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what did it take from internet forums that IRC couldn't have realistically already done?

    Most group chats to me are pretty much the same as IRC was back in the day, unless you examined the protocols themselves. Upload limits are also much larger (except for that brief period skype was popular and you could upload gigabytes)

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  • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I must not understand what group chat is. I have two friends where the three of us group text each other daily and it’s pretty neat.

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  • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I must not understand what group chats are then. Is it not just texting with a number of your friends at once?

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• bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I really like that Signal let’s you do group stories, it works really well for this.

  Some of my groups have great participation and it’s a great place to send all the random links we send.

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• chic_luke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it? Don’t like to play devil’s advocate but I’m pretty sure my Instagram is pretty much alive and my BeReal feed is an at all all-time high.

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  • Mighty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    if you red even the first sentences, you will see that the author doesn’t claim that there are NO posts. they say that most of the posts are not social media anymore but corporate designs

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• bdesk@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who posted this

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  • LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No one, it said so right in the title.

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• nl4real@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hopefully interest in forums starts to pick up again. Not be the main thing, but at least an alternative.

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• banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’ve run a private chat server for friends 10+ years now with channels and that’s where most sharing goes on, whatsapp chats with some, and I’ve basically moved to Discord for other interests and still use forums for some. Public social media is more for profile curation, displaying a highly curated identity.

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• asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mostly repost of things they didn’t make in an attempt to grab some ad revenue…

  Like why do I need to see 2 or 3 arborist reposts from ~3 accounts not owned or affiliated by such arborists?

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• Roundcat@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why does this seem to only be about Instagram?

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• trivialBetaState@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are these social media or scam media?
  I consider kbin, Lemmy and Mastodon (or better, the Fediverse) so much healthier.

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• donut4ever@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  More people need to know about pixelfed. It is basically very much the old IG.

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  • books@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So og if that it doesn’t have an Android app?

    That might be too vanilla of insta.

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    • olorin99@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There's an android app. I think you have to download it from their website rather than the play store cos it is in beta.

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    • donut4ever@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are several of them

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• Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  *For specific definitions of "no one."

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• xc2215x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I see tons of posts. What is this about ?

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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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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  tiktok copied be real with tiktok now

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s the over/under on this having been posted and inspired posts on literally every social media platform within an hour of publication, thus proving the headline ridiculous?

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  • ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The article isn’t aolbout what you think.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shouldn’t have a misleading headline, then.

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• CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are we all doing here then?

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