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Fewer people posting on social media, Ofcom finds (www.bbc.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[+] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Hurray! People stop doing stupid shit!

    you certainly have a high opinion of your own activities, eh?

    I agree that the kind of "social media" that is popular among the general public (i.e. sharing information about one's own life) is fairly stupid. But Lemmy too is "social media", any support forum is "social media", even wikis are "social media", and I do not think that those are stupid things to do, at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's like saying caffeine is a drug just like heroin, technically true but there is a big difference

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I actually dislike the term "social media" in the first place, only used it above for convenience...

    I (seriously) discovered that there were websites that allowed the general public to participate in the mid-2000s when I was a preteen. I immediately liked that concept and started to participate on such sites (first forums, later wikis) myself and found that fun.

    Then around 2008, everyone started to insist that such sites were now called "social media" and the most important ones were Facebook and Twitter, both of which I hadn't heard of until around that time, and both of which didn't seem like very fun or appealing places at all.

    Now I keep hearing about the horrible things apparently caused by "social media" and wonder, what do you even mean, what could possibly be wrong with web forums.

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    • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That's one thing that I suspect to be making it hard for the fediverse to attract users. Maybe lot of people are just tired of social networks and not in the mood to try a new one, so they end up just drastically reducing their social media usage and are happy with it.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I bet that progressive eshittification of big social media platforms done by greedy corporations is liable here as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What a better world it would be if their greed actually just destroyed them

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    • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I used to be all over social media since the Myspace days but it's been exhausting over the last handful of years. I know I don't use it as much anymore and neither do any of my friends. But like the article said a lot of us still watch video content.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Who on Earth was clamoring for more things the length of ads?

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