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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 :(

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would love to see someone born into today's internet landscape try to entertain themselves with lowtax's poorly written essays about hentai and his beginner knowledge of ww2 tanks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes it harder to find popular music, but way easier to find music that appeals to you personally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, when I come across something I am not familiar with I have a preset playlist of enough things to really get a feel for the style and know if I like any of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly I'm probably just going to keep mining the 60s-00s for music like I always have. Now that I have a job and less time to find music I'll probably never run out lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really is a bit weird when people ask me what kind of music I like and I have to think of a way to describe my 1.3k video YouTube playlist of random genre and time period music that I have found in the most random places

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just say shitty indie metal and folk. Folks usually losee interest, or they become curious and find out about Hulkoff and holy locust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you link both of those bands?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hulkoff was pretty cool, very artistic too (I enjoyed the video I watched. Holy Locust was definitely a bit more folksy, I kind of liked it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad ya liked my taste in music dude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fuck reddit, shell of its former self

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

ya, thats why i'm here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looks like a small formatting issue:
~~strike through~~ = ~~strike through~~
~subscript~ = ~subscript~

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Guess Sync doesn't support subscript

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Voyager shows those both as strikethrough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess that's one of the downside of using 3rd party applications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Growing pains. They'll get there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

sync put anime boobs instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boost show the strikethrough, not the subscript

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It looks like none of the apps for handle the syntax of lemmy correctly, that hurts communication.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.