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[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Bye guys, guess none of us are really here

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Good. Social media was only ever the corporate commodified communications platforms.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

"your honor, in my defense my website sucks. like really sucks. like try using it for a good purpose. it is inherently evil."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago

Yeah I wonder who could possibly be responsible for that... Tis a mystery

[–] [email protected] 29 points 14 hours ago

So you going to shut down Facebook right Mark? Right Mark?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hahaha, not a fast learner... Own it bro, FB is over...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Clearly the solution is to spread more conspiracy theories. People are obviously leaving due to the lack of conspiracy theories.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Has been for a while. If you look at most recent marketing analysis, numbers weren’t like they were peak pandemic and 2016. It was declining since then, you just chilling with bots mostly.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago

I would probably think that too if I ran Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Thought this was a press release thing... Like: Social media is dead... Now it's "Meta-media" dabs as crowd collectively faints

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has been over for a while. Unless you call ads social media. It’s all ads.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

Right. They got greedy and made it more shitty for profit. Users left and now its one of these free weekly papers with ads and classified ads. Now they are considering filling the gap of missing user content with AI so it will be a circular system without humans at one point.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So he's trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

probably also somehow related to theads being federated

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friends' OC (not reshared garbage).

It's about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I'd take it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You actually can nearly do that. Facebook inexplicably showed me how a few weeks ago. If a friend reshares something, you'll see it, but it removes all groups, etc. It was stunning how little content actually comes from friends.

On the Facebook site (I'm sure it can be done via app, too, but I didn't look), click on the menu near the top right, then click Feeds (under Social). Then click on Friends on the left.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Wow, is does. Thanks for that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Too late for that. We have TikTok now. Everyone needs a new dopamine hit every 3 seconds and god forbid you run out of new things in your feed.

The era of social media IS over. Even if you make a good one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

check out the Fediverse...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm here. Ain't no billions of people rushing to join us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Not necessarily a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So... original, unshittified Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I wonder if a fediverse version of that would resonate with any of my friends and family. Seems like we are where we started with forums, just strangers respectfully taking about their common interests. Social media is indeed dead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm amazed that's not what FB still is. I apparently bailed before the worst of it because I don't recall seeing random people's posts on my feed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Last time I logged into Facebook I noticed a lot of the recommends included feeds of attractive women. I mean, I like women with gyatts, butt clearly their algos have been fine tuned on what kind of content they serve: sexual content and alt-right garbage

I miss the good old days when it was just updates from friends.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago

He should know, he fucking killed it

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Social media is dead, and we killed it."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Killed it, as in they were awesome and won, or as in unalived. The quote by itself could mean either.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

After the android downloads all the data on the Internet, like a dalek.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago

An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I'll pass

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