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I'm just excited the internet is in part going back to its non corporate backed roots with Lemmy mastodon and the like. The internet started that way, and thanks to the enshitification it will hopefully slowly revert back to it
The idea that corporations were involved in social media was insane looking back. The results were exactly what one would have anticipated
If by "mourn" you mean "tap-dance on its fucking grave," then sure!
I just moved to Miami and don't know where to meet groups of like-minded people. There is nothing on MeetUp, but there are groups on Facebook. I hate that I had to sign into that garbage fire for the first time in years. My whole feed is filled with "suggested posts" of people I don't know nor things I give a shit about.
FTFY: ~mourn~ celebrate
I only mourne reddit, that website was a lifestyle back in the day. Thats why i'm here lol. God I miss the good oll' days.
Yeah, it is a bit strange. That was a central hub of where I got news, jokes, stayed connected with internet culture. That's mostly gone now. So many things feel splintered anymore. I'm old so I don't keep up with the latest games, but that feels all over the place---too many games, too many communities. Streaming/TV stuff---very few people I know watch the same things I do, and I miss the joy of watching something new and then talking about it the next day moments. Worse now is that most people can't even access the same content since there are too many services. Music is strange now too. Partly, I'm just not connected to pop culture, but also everyone is listening to VERY different stuff (referring to college-age folks---most other millennials I know just listen to NPR, podcasts and 90s mixes). There doesn't seem to be any monolithic music culture at all anymore. Everyone has super customized spotify playlists. I know a big part is just millennial aging, but also reddit kept me connected to broader things, and now its just like everything else and enshittified and disappearing. sigh ... get off my lawn I guess :(
That was a central hub of where I got news, jokes, stayed connected with internet culture. That’s mostly gone now. So many things feel splintered anymore.
Its returned closer to what the internet was BEFORE reddit. People cultivated lists of bookmarks for sites they'd visit for their daily special interests. Lemmy is still a larger audience than what we had before. For jokes you might go to fark.com or somethingawful.com. These were the user driven humor aggregators of the day.
There doesn’t seem to be any monolithic music culture at all anymore. Everyone has super customized spotify playlists.
I've noticed this too. In some ways it makes it harder to find new music.
Makes it harder to find popular music, but way easier to find music that appeals to you personally
fuck reddit, shell of its former self
ya, thats why i'm here.
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Idk. I feel mentally healthier off social media. But its been around since I was in high school and I have no idea how to socialize with people outside my immediate circle now. My social muscles have atrophied.
Mourning? More like dancing on its grave. With the fediverse being everything social media 1.0 was and more, there is no need for the legacy platforms. I just hope that the fediverse can get some more traction with folks outside tech circles and we can normalize cooperation and free social platforms as in free speech not as in free beer.
It's also all right to laugh maniacally as it all burns down.
That was my thought.
I don't mourn it's death, I celebrate it.
Once advertising got involved, it was all downhill from there.
Gen Z, I mourned Reddit for 30 seconds. Now I'm here.
"Social media is like a public toilet; anyone is free to use it, no one should drink from it." -Llama2 70B by Meta
Nah, forums are more organic old school is cool.
Forums are social media as well, though. They just have different features. "Social media" are all websites and applications which allow sharing of content between users.
I think a forum was just less anonymous. I never remember any name on Lemmy, for example. On the forums ~back in the day~ I actually got to know the people. We even had forum meetings in real life.
I miss forums. Even on technical forums for a software, there was usually an off topic or random section to hang out in
I feel like it should read, “Millenials, remember to drink water in between your champagne glasses while you’re toasting to the death of social media.”
The worst is the ever-shortening of content into an addictive format. It reduces mental clarity.
It's not over though, it's really just beginning again.
Something tells me the editorial staff at Buisness Insider might have a harder time than most visualizing an online social landscape built around being, y'know, social, and not for profit.
Ah, now I'm tracking. I really should've paid more attention to the source.
Especially fuck meta and xitter.
Worst part is that they actually started out kind of great, and killed all alternatives. Then they became progressively worse because of their predatory algorithms and whatnot, and now it's borderline impossible to get friends and family to switch to an alternative like mastodon or pixelfed...
The thing that threw me off Facebook was the 2016 election and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, even though I ran a popular meme page. I thought I found a sanctuary on Reddit, but looking back everything major on it was shilled to advertise or sow political discord. I thought Google Plus had a lot of potential, but nobody I knew would join and y’know, Google’s privacy record.
As long as humans are social creatures, and the Internet connects us, there will be social media in some form or another.
I for one celebrate the inevitable crash/death of all this social media. It's turned normal people into unacceptable drooling trash. That is if you're able to ignore the data collection and use of it, in which case it turned the whole internet into a dumpster fire as well.
It's turned normal people into unacceptable drooling trash.
They always were. Social media just gave them a platform to you.
Imagine mourning the death of social media.
I mourn its creation.
I grew up on forums / IRC / IMs, later transitioned to Myspace, then Twitter / Facebook / Tumblr / Instagram. I had a lot of fun over the years, it definitely saddens me that I can't get the things I liked about those experiences back.
On one hand, it's a bit sad to see the average person not know about the Fediverse and claim "welp, there's nowhere else to go, it's either staying on the same ten junkyards I know or quitting cold-turkey". On the other hand, the relative obscurity kind of comes from the fact that there's no single main instance of the Fediverse. Sure there's things like Mastodon.Social, Lemmy.ML and Misskey.GG that concentrate most users of their niche, but by nature, there is not (and should not be) a centralized place where everybody is, that can be used as the poster child for the Fediverse.
More like piss over the grave
I'm not mourning, I've just done what I've done every few years for at least a decade now and just found a new fucking home. Plus, I think this and mastodon will be my home for awhile now since the decentralized nature of it makes it really easy to avoid the bullshit that brought me here.
Actually, I think I'm kinda okay with the "death" of social media. I mean, I'm already on this platform a lot, so...I guess I'm not missing much?
Hopefully it's just the death of surveillance and fake news infested social media with censors ensuring you don't deviate from the Overton window.
Is this their first platform death? Come on, Wired!
Millennials have been losing platforms on the Internet for pretty much the whole history of the Internet. Just a handful of "social media" type services that have risen and fallen in my years of the internet: AOL Instant Message, ICQ, IRC, Usenet, LiveJournal, MySpace, on and on.
Most of these aren't even properly "dead", many I just.mentioned still have big user groups too. They just lost a critical user share when folks moved on.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In Wired, Jason Parham writes about how first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.
Indeed, millennials have soured on the big social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram feel dead.
There's a lot of ways to feel about this: maybe relief, maybe anger at the companies who messed things up.
But Parham made me feel something different: sad.
He points out that "first-gen" users (like me) were part of a "golden age of connectivity," and for those years, it really was exciting.
I'm sad that golden age is over, and I'm not sure we'll ever experience anything like it again.
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