“social” Media

I wished they mentioned Lemmy, but at least they are talking about Mastodon. I don’t understand why more media outlets aren’t switching away from Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.

EDIT: Away from Twitter, not to Twitter.

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.

With very few exceptions, when a company goes public it goes to shit because they get stuck in the race to the bottom in order to appease the investors and completely fuck their loyal customers

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

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As people grow tired of toxic and addictive platforms that undermine real social connection, this new wave of social-focused upstarts could end up producing a healthier online environment.

Major platforms such as Facebook have long abandoned their goal to “bring the world closer together” in favor of “profit-motivated and engagement-inducing designs” that keep us hooked and drive growth, Ben Grosser, an artist and faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, told me.

No matter how fun group chats and breakout social apps such as BeReal are, I’ve missed the borderless experience that large platforms offer — a place where I can discover viral content, expand my network, and participate in global conversations.

At its best, Steve Teixeira, the chief product officer at Mozilla, said that social media facilitated connection, regardless of geographic or temporal boundaries, and helps people stay informed, encounter novel ideas, and access vital services.

And experts have found that a collection of networks would “optimize itself solely for public good,” rather than fall into the pitfalls of traditional platforms — an unhealthy obsession with metrics and meaningless interactions.

It’s hard to predict the future, least of all when it comes to online services where new apps can go viral — and then fail — in a flash, but the breakup of monolithic social-media platforms and the rise of myriad new social experiences has felt like an urgent, long-overdue turn of events.

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The business model has always been unsustainable and plain stupid, imo.

I’m fine using Lemmy

Technology was a mistake.

You literally posted this to social media.