I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.
Great news — social media is falling apart::I don’t know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.
This is probably an overreaction. I do, however, think their growth is reversing and that’s why platforms like Facebook are diversifying rather rapidly. Things like Facebook marketplace and instagram are still hugely popular.
Us that are tech literate tend to not see the giant mass of tech illiterate who will always use the stuff they know aka Facebook.
Though none of these platforms have tried to make money yet
Isn’t this one of the big factors why they are so shitty (excluding donations/non profit)?
Will other platforms accept these companies exploitation or want to have anything with them? I would guess they will rot/enshitify along with them if so
True, but I think its more that the United State’s version of capitalism lacks safeguards against corporations influencing government regulation, and that leads to unsustainability.
Although I suppose the same could be said about social media, except the corporation in control would have no incentive to curb their own control.
When FB came along it was the first service that made connecting with both your close friends and acquaintances fairly convenient. Myspace had a thing going for sure but if I remember my experience was connecting with my closest friends (which we could already do with chat or email) + randoms.
FB actually found your friends and acquaintances for you. In the beginning, that was the only thing you saw too… not a page full of ads and people you don’t know.
As we all know it’s gone. That’s why we’ve all stopped going there to connect. It’s gone and the information we posted to share with friends was used inappropriately.
There is also nonstop pressure coming from potentially disruptive social startups. The people have fractured into many many different apps now.
But I don’t see a problem with that. The total number of people online is higher then ever. Old phpBB forums were awesome with only a few thousand users, and something like that will come again. We don’t need Facebook groups that are filled with adspam.
Seems like there’s a ripe opportunity for a federated group system.
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This is probably an overreaction. I do, however, think their growth is reversing and that’s why platforms like Facebook are diversifying rather rapidly. Things like Facebook marketplace and instagram are still hugely popular.
Us that are tech literate tend to not see the giant mass of tech illiterate who will always use the stuff they know aka Facebook.
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Isn’t this one of the big factors why they are so shitty (excluding donations/non profit)?
Will other platforms accept these companies exploitation or want to have anything with them? I would guess they will rot/enshitify along with them if so
The business model has always been unsustainable and plain stupid, imo.
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True, but I think its more that the United State’s version of capitalism lacks safeguards against corporations influencing government regulation, and that leads to unsustainability.
Although I suppose the same could be said about social media, except the corporation in control would have no incentive to curb their own control.
When FB came along it was the first service that made connecting with both your close friends and acquaintances fairly convenient. Myspace had a thing going for sure but if I remember my experience was connecting with my closest friends (which we could already do with chat or email) + randoms.
FB actually found your friends and acquaintances for you. In the beginning, that was the only thing you saw too… not a page full of ads and people you don’t know.
As we all know it’s gone. That’s why we’ve all stopped going there to connect. It’s gone and the information we posted to share with friends was used inappropriately.
There is also nonstop pressure coming from potentially disruptive social startups. The people have fractured into many many different apps now.
But I don’t see a problem with that. The total number of people online is higher then ever. Old phpBB forums were awesome with only a few thousand users, and something like that will come again. We don’t need Facebook groups that are filled with adspam.
Seems like there’s a ripe opportunity for a federated group system.
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