Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one’s posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.
I have been wanting to get back to making stuff on social media but due to work and no longer being the IDGAF teenager I get nervous on what to talk about.
Like I was hoping to do a podcast for my Facebook friends but I only uploaded one episode cause I want to do a few about how work sucks. But then I worry it’ll be depressing.
No app better defines the changing nature of social media than Instagram. The app started as a digital scrapbook — a place to keep up with real-world connections, close friends, and family. While other networks had more users (Facebook) or generated more news (Twitter), Instagram seemed to define the ideal form of this era of social media. Instagram became a verb, an aesthetic, and a generational signifier.
huUURP! BLAAaahhriifgghhh. . .
Garbage marketing platform dies horribly. Thousands of clueless “journalists” bereft.
Insta-gram
I thought it originated as a marketplace for single servings of drugs.
I thought it was putting grandma on speed dial
Hopefully interest in forums starts to pick up again. Not be the main thing, but at least an alternative.
Are these social media or scam media?
I consider kbin, Lemmy and Mastodon (or better, the Fediverse) so much healthier.I deleted all my big tech accounts, and lots of people are posting on the fediverse.
deleted by creator
More people need to know about pixelfed. It is basically very much the old IG.
So og IG that it doesn’t have an Android app?
That might be too vanilla of insta.
There’s an android app. I think you have to download it from their website rather than the play store cos it is in beta.
I have Instagram installed but frozen with “Ice Box” android app.
I open once per day or 2 days to catch up with some friends status. But I don’t see those neverending reels anymore.
What do you mean by frozen? What does it do?
It freezes the app preventing background usage.
It’s like the “disable” option that you have in system apps. But for user apps. In fact, once you disable them if you search them in play store they appear with an “enable” button.
The advantage is that your userdata is still there. And you can quickly open it (unfreeze) from the Ice Box app.
Ok, that’s interesting. I might try it.
I would argue that the quality of content is in decline more than numerical users. Also, the quantity of ads are much much higher, which hides what little good content there is.
Mix that in with political splits in social media sites (from left leaning Lemmy to the Facebook right), and you generally find yourself in an echo chamber with little to surprise you, and a lot of things confirming what you already know.
tiktok copied be real with tiktok now
I don’t post because I know no one will see my posts, and I don’t want to give them my data without feeding my narcism in return.
Who posted this
No one, it said so right in the title.
Group chats were for sharing before social media. It just out lasted them.
Indian aunties were on the group chat trend before it was cool.
Does Lemmy count as social media?? lol
