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.
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.
Social media was hijacked as is everything good by advertisers and corporations and became plain old corporate media that they let you participate in as long as you say and do the right things.
Ask yourself who invited all these companies to your feeds and sites.
They just shoehorn their way into your lives with no regard. They never question their own value to you.
That’s why your potato chips and supermarket has an Instagram account. Also companies are fucking cheapskates and profit chasers so they like to use social media as tech support now too so they don’t need to pay people to answer the phone or email you so they set up shop on twitter and Facebook.
One again the big veiny dick of capitalism fucks the fun out of something.
The internet has been almost entirely enshittified by large corporations and government overreach. I really do wish there was a way to get back to Web 1.0 of mostly user-generated, self-hosted content, without the slow internet speeds or crappy web design motifs.
Might be possible if everyone is forced underground due to adblockers possibly getting killed off.
Lemmy is one of the ways back to internet 1.0.
Web 2.0 was the advent of user generated content. Web 1.0 was not. It was site-generated content for the most part. Some forums possibly. But it was extremely static and was very poor way to find user generated content.
I blame javascript. If it weren’t for people fucking with the time travel machine WE’D be the ones in the original timeline, and no one would have to suffer in this timeline where javascript got invented.
Let’s focus on Rampart.
No. Only MY movies are allowed to be promoted on Lemmy.
Not during the strike they’re not…
Well, not by me… but somebody else.