Good. Social media was only ever the corporate commodified communications platforms.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Bye guys, guess none of us are really here
Yeah I wonder who could possibly be responsible for that... Tis a mystery
"your honor, in my defense my website sucks. like really sucks. like try using it for a good purpose. it is inherently evil."
Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.
So you going to shut down Facebook right Mark? Right Mark?
Hahaha, not a fast learner... Own it bro, FB is over...
Clearly the solution is to spread more conspiracy theories. People are obviously leaving due to the lack of conspiracy theories.
Has been for a while. If you look at most recent marketing analysis, numbers weren’t like they were peak pandemic and 2016. It was declining since then, you just chilling with bots mostly.
I would probably think that too if I ran Facebook.
Has been over for a while. Unless you call ads social media. It’s all ads.
Right. They got greedy and made it more shitty for profit. Users left and now its one of these free weekly papers with ads and classified ads. Now they are considering filling the gap of missing user content with AI so it will be a circular system without humans at one point.
He should know, he fucking killed it
It's such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friends' OC (not reshared garbage).
It's about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I'd take it.
You actually can nearly do that. Facebook inexplicably showed me how a few weeks ago. If a friend reshares something, you'll see it, but it removes all groups, etc. It was stunning how little content actually comes from friends.
On the Facebook site (I'm sure it can be done via app, too, but I didn't look), click on the menu near the top right, then click Feeds (under Social). Then click on Friends on the left.
So... original, unshittified Facebook?
I wonder if a fediverse version of that would resonate with any of my friends and family. Seems like we are where we started with forums, just strangers respectfully taking about their common interests. Social media is indeed dead.
I'm amazed that's not what FB still is. I apparently bailed before the worst of it because I don't recall seeing random people's posts on my feed.
Last time I logged into Facebook I noticed a lot of the recommends included feeds of attractive women. I mean, I like women with gyatts, butt clearly their algos have been fine tuned on what kind of content they serve: sexual content and alt-right garbage
I miss the good old days when it was just updates from friends.
Too late for that. We have TikTok now. Everyone needs a new dopamine hit every 3 seconds and god forbid you run out of new things in your feed.
The era of social media IS over. Even if you make a good one.
check out the Fediverse...
I'm here. Ain't no billions of people rushing to join us.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
So he's trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.
probably also somehow related to theads being federated
Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends' content. I'm not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
One of the appeals of Bluesky (for now) is the Followimg feed that presents comments exclusively from people I follow, in chronological order.
Crazy that Facebook can't deliver this anymore
They can, but choose not to
They used to, but it didn’t boost ad engagement so they stopped.
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The technical complexity of showing a chronological feed of posts from subscribed accounts? Are you asking for one to scoff at thou peasant? You might as well request a toaster without bluetooth BAHAHAHA! BEGONE!
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This is exactly why I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It no longer served it’s only purpose.
I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or "you should follow this person" type posts.
No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.
I'm not friends with corporations, so don't push me their shit.
Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don't care that I haven't interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I'm still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily
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"Social media is dead, and we killed it."
Killed it, as in they were awesome and won, or as in unalived. The quote by itself could mean either.
"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"
Thought this was a press release thing... Like: Social media is dead... Now it's "Meta-media" dabs as crowd collectively faints
Yes, his offerings of "social media" are over. And that's great.
An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I'll pass
Mark Zuckerberg Says For-Profit Social Media Is Over
ftfy
Exactly this. "We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability."
Why can't anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.
Large corporations buy up disruptive companies like that
Love that "disruptive" is a valid term for companies like that.
Because modest returns don't attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).
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You heard it, the robot said we can go outside again.
He should know, he's the one that put a shotgun in its mouth over a decade ago.
Centralized for profit social media should be over.
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