I used to be all over social media since the Myspace days but it's been exhausting over the last handful of years. I know I don't use it as much anymore and neither do any of my friends. But like the article said a lot of us still watch video content.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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Fewer people posting on social media
Hurray! People stop doing stupid shit!
it highlights a social media shift as platforms boost short video.
Fuck. People have found even stupider way to express their idiocy.
Hurray! People stop doing stupid shit!
you certainly have a high opinion of your own activities, eh?
I agree that the kind of "social media" that is popular among the general public (i.e. sharing information about one's own life) is fairly stupid. But Lemmy too is "social media", any support forum is "social media", even wikis are "social media", and I do not think that those are stupid things to do, at all.
That's like saying caffeine is a drug just like heroin, technically true but there is a big difference
I actually dislike the term "social media" in the first place, only used it above for convenience...
I (seriously) discovered that there were websites that allowed the general public to participate in the mid-2000s when I was a preteen. I immediately liked that concept and started to participate on such sites (first forums, later wikis) myself and found that fun.
Then around 2008, everyone started to insist that such sites were now called "social media" and the most important ones were Facebook and Twitter, both of which I hadn't heard of until around that time, and both of which didn't seem like very fun or appealing places at all.
Now I keep hearing about the horrible things apparently caused by "social media" and wonder, what do you even mean, what could possibly be wrong with web forums.
I think you use that "social" term too widely.
support forum is “social media”, even wikis are “social media”,
Completely disagree. I don't see any social component here. Of course you can say that any resource where one user can leave a message readable by another user is a social media, but... what's the point? I can write a message on the brick wall and it would be readable by others :)
you certainly have a high opinion of your own activities, eh?
Yes, writing here is almost a complete waste of time. "Almost" because I have one rational reason to continue to do it: I try to improve my English. As soon as Lemmy will stop helping me with that, I will move my attention to something more interesting than arguing with strangers about unimportant things :)
That's one thing that I suspect to be making it hard for the fediverse to attract users. Maybe lot of people are just tired of social networks and not in the mood to try a new one, so they end up just drastically reducing their social media usage and are happy with it.
I bet that progressive eshittification of big social media platforms done by greedy corporations is liable here as well.
What a better world it would be if their greed actually just destroyed them
Who on Earth was clamoring for more things the length of ads?