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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

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[–] 91 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (19 children)

Like for real!! I was a semi-lurker on reddit. Posted a couple times a year.

I just passed 500 posts on Lemmy.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    I've found lemmy to be alot less hostile, don't care about downvotes, but attacking people because of opinions doesn't sound like a fun time to me

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    The absence of a running karma total is a surprisingly powerful difference. I do still look back at old posts, and it's nice when there's votes, but without the little number next to a name or when I mouse-over a profile, there's no motivation to be the first in a thread to repost a cliche joke or to ragebait for fake internet points.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I think the “not having to be first” is what is so powerful.

    I know that if I comment on a post from a few days ago on a populated community, I’ll likely at least get a reply from OP, if not a bunch of other people finding my comment and replying as well.

    It’s like Lemmy is the nice, small-town version of Reddit (which is probably more similar to Gary Indiana).

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That’s a bit cruel to Gary, Indiana, don’t you think?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I hated most of those cliche jokes. Here I am looking for real conversation only to be met with thousands of not witty low effort jokes.

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  • [+] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think that on some bots it is meant as feedback on its performance but to have 10 users give the same feedback is kinda annoying. Maybe Lemmy can have a feature were humans can approve/disapprove bot performance that doesn't involve upvote/downvote. It would only be available to bot accounts in the site's UI. Could possibly expand it's functionality to something more useful. Or just use the voting system because it's already in place.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Lemmy definitely has a more chill, human vibe than I got with Reddit, given how overrun the latter was with vast armies of shills, bots, alt right trolls, etc.

    Not that it's all rainbow-pooping unicorns frolicking through flowery meadows here but at least the dick comments tend to be much rarer and often a one off for the person making them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Huh, when I clicked on your profile it says 0 posts...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Profiles are rarely accurate. I viewed the same profile from two different instances (yes the same profile, not the same username from two different instances) and they didn't even have the age of thr account the same. One was 2 years, one was 2 months. So I wouldn't trust that. I'd only trust it if you're logged into that very instance.

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