Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Um, FIDOnet and USEnet were pretty awesome, thank you.

  I was on some network that rose after MySpace but before Facebook and realized that wasn’t for me.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think I’d rather celebrate it…

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• Mereo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The wired article in question: wired.com/…/first-gen-social-media-users-have-now…

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• Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If traditional social media platforms die, then most of their users will move to federated ones and end up turning those into dumpster fires. I’m a Reddit migrant and I’ve already noticed Reddit behavior just a couple weeks in, also known as “not good”. I’m getting the vibe that Mastodon could suffer from this a few months or years from now due to Elon Musk’s questionable decisions regarding Twitt- I mean X, and the fact that nobody uses Threads anymore (it’s basically a giant Israel-Palestine debate right now). I’m not sure about PixelFed or PeerTube or any of the other ActivityPub alternatives to traditional platforms.

  Is it worth adding the “van Lemmy” suffix to my username? Yeah, it sounds more Flemish (I am not from Flanders), and it reveals to the world that I’m some random loser from the fediverse, even though I’ve only ever spent a few months here. Also, there’s probably a few other folks who refer to themselves as “Resol”, so it kinda makes me stand out.

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• Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ‘life isn’t as fun as it was when I was younger, it must be the internet’s fault’

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  • AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The world in general is far shittier than it was a decade ago, internet included.

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• nitrogenez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  hey, we’re not all like that.

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