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We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever? (www.wsj.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Fitik@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.

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[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

People are tired of being farmed and manipulated?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Facebook got so bad that you couldn't even see anything your friends posted. It was all sponsored content. So eventually most people completely stopped posting, myself included. It looks like they backed off that BS a couple of days ago, but it's probably too late, the flight away has already occurred.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.

i think the fediverse might solve for a lot of this.

its still very early, the 'verse software space is still pretty wild-west, and there is no telling how 'the emojid masses' will take to the fediverse. That also assumes it can achieve sufficient momentum.

there would theoretically be enough diversity in the fediverse to account for many of those concerns. dont like bots? there are bot-free instances. hate ads? there are many self-sustaining , user-supported models.

not a given, but not outside the realm of possibility

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

also, most of us aren't in it for money. that changes everything.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It feels like the tragedy of the commons all over again, a public space becomes dominated by private interests and eventually destroyed.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

this is the correct usage of the term, if any. it was a stupid concept as originally envisioned