It's shitty ass hats like zuck that makes me appreciate Lemmy even more. Its the right amount of social media for me.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mark.
Good. Social media was only ever the corporate commodified communications platforms.
Bye guys, guess none of us are really here
I think, therefore I am.
Yeah I wonder who could possibly be responsible for that... Tis a mystery
So you going to shut down Facebook right Mark? Right Mark?
"your honor, in my defense my website sucks. like really sucks. like try using it for a good purpose. it is inherently evil."
Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.
Hahaha, not a fast learner... Own it bro, FB is over...
Clearly the solution is to spread more conspiracy theories. People are obviously leaving due to the lack of conspiracy theories.
Has been over for a while. Unless you call ads social media. It’s all ads.
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.
Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends' content. I'm not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
One of the appeals of Bluesky (for now) is the Followimg feed that presents comments exclusively from people I follow, in chronological order.
Crazy that Facebook can't deliver this anymore
They can, but choose not to
They used to, but it didn’t boost ad engagement so they stopped.
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This is exactly why I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It no longer served it’s only purpose.
I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or "you should follow this person" type posts.
No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.
I'm not friends with corporations, so don't push me their shit.
Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don't care that I haven't interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I'm still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily
This. I have to go out of my way to even see my wife's posts (well, before I deleted Facebook).
2/3rds of my feed are ads.
This metric is bullshit because they fucked up the waters.
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This is ironic because all the 40 year old chicks who are career users of FB since college, all cite the same justification for continuing to use it: "But all my photos and the current happenings of my friends".
If you showed them epirical data that only 17% of what they consume on the platform is actually even tangentially related to their friends and family, maybe they'd finally decouple themselves from FB.
It’s worse with instagram. I debated switching to Pixelfed at first because no one I know is on it. But then I realized I barely see friends content on insta, so it’s not really different, at least on Pixelfed I don’t see adds and only see posts from people I follow.
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I would probably think that too if I ran Facebook.
He should know, he fucking killed it
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.
So... original, unshittified Facebook?
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.
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.
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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.
Wow, is does. Thanks for that
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.
check out the Fediverse...
I'm here. Ain't no billions of people rushing to join us.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
Agree. Lemmy doesn't need to have as many users as other platforms to be good.
If ppl can't understand what's so good about Lemmy then they are just suckers who deserve to be taken advantage of by corporations.
Yes, his offerings of "social media" are over. And that's great.
So he's trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.
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An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I'll pass
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.
Mark Zuckerberg Says For-Profit Social Media Is Over
ftfy
Exactly this. "We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability."
Why can't anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.
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You heard it, the robot said we can go outside again.
Thought this was a press release thing... Like: Social media is dead... Now it's "Meta-media" dabs as crowd collectively faints
He should know, he's the one that put a shotgun in its mouth over a decade ago.
Centralized for profit social media should be over.
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