▲ 975 ▼ It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 3 years ago by Uranium3006@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 330 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 33 points 3 years ago (9 children) Does Lemmy count as social media?? lol permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago Yes but I’d classify it as a different category more akin to old school forums. It’s less a place to post photos of yourself and more one to discuss and read about stuff you enjoy (or memes). I just want a place personally to discuss movies, video games, technology etc permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zeron@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago (1 child) In broad strokes, yeah. I'd even consider older, more traditional forms like forums and IRC/BBS to be proto forms of social media. As long as the internet exists there will be social media, what form it takes is malleable depending on the desires of the userbase at hand. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Uranium3006@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago At that point the operational definition is just "website where you can post stuff" permalink fedilink source parent [+] lud@lemm.ee 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 years ago I'm not sure "they don't matter" is something I could get behind. We still have every reason to remember that there's (probably) a person on the other end, one we should extend common courtesy to, and with whom we might exchange perspective-changing ideas, even if rarely. That said I agree the "reddit" format is the one I always liked best. It just makes more sense for people who want to discuss the same things, to group up online, rather than into arbitrary parasocial masses around a select few persons, as well as the people you know IRL and may or may not have any interest in actually interacting with. permalink fedilink source parent [–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 5 points 3 years ago Hi, bye. permalink fedilink source parent [–] RhetoricalOrator@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Yeah the way you describe it makes it sound like we could build an AI forum where each user is the only one in there and all the rest are ai bots whose only purpose is to generate the content and interaction we're looking for. I think Reddit is just the beta version. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I prefer it not be this way. I kind of hate getting replies here and I can tell the person I'm talking to isn't paying attention to who in the thread they are talking to. It's like people aren't seeing each other as people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 points 3 years ago permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 21 points 3 years ago Yes but I’d classify it as a different category more akin to old school forums. It’s less a place to post photos of yourself and more one to discuss and read about stuff you enjoy (or memes). I just want a place personally to discuss movies, video games, technology etc permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zeron@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago (1 child) In broad strokes, yeah. I'd even consider older, more traditional forms like forums and IRC/BBS to be proto forms of social media. As long as the internet exists there will be social media, what form it takes is malleable depending on the desires of the userbase at hand. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Uranium3006@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago At that point the operational definition is just "website where you can post stuff" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social [S] 1 point 3 years ago At that point the operational definition is just "website where you can post stuff" permalink fedilink source parent
[+] lud@lemm.ee 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 years ago I'm not sure "they don't matter" is something I could get behind. We still have every reason to remember that there's (probably) a person on the other end, one we should extend common courtesy to, and with whom we might exchange perspective-changing ideas, even if rarely. That said I agree the "reddit" format is the one I always liked best. It just makes more sense for people who want to discuss the same things, to group up online, rather than into arbitrary parasocial masses around a select few persons, as well as the people you know IRL and may or may not have any interest in actually interacting with. permalink fedilink source parent [–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 5 points 3 years ago Hi, bye. permalink fedilink source parent [–] RhetoricalOrator@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Yeah the way you describe it makes it sound like we could build an AI forum where each user is the only one in there and all the rest are ai bots whose only purpose is to generate the content and interaction we're looking for. I think Reddit is just the beta version. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I prefer it not be this way. I kind of hate getting replies here and I can tell the person I'm talking to isn't paying attention to who in the thread they are talking to. It's like people aren't seeing each other as people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 points 3 years ago permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 years ago I'm not sure "they don't matter" is something I could get behind. We still have every reason to remember that there's (probably) a person on the other end, one we should extend common courtesy to, and with whom we might exchange perspective-changing ideas, even if rarely. That said I agree the "reddit" format is the one I always liked best. It just makes more sense for people who want to discuss the same things, to group up online, rather than into arbitrary parasocial masses around a select few persons, as well as the people you know IRL and may or may not have any interest in actually interacting with. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RhetoricalOrator@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Yeah the way you describe it makes it sound like we could build an AI forum where each user is the only one in there and all the rest are ai bots whose only purpose is to generate the content and interaction we're looking for. I think Reddit is just the beta version. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I prefer it not be this way. I kind of hate getting replies here and I can tell the person I'm talking to isn't paying attention to who in the thread they are talking to. It's like people aren't seeing each other as people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 points 3 years ago permalink fedilink source parent