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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.

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[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does Lemmy count as social media?? lol

[–] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Yes but I’d classify it as a different category more akin to old school forums. It’s less a place to post photos of yourself and more one to discuss and read about stuff you enjoy (or memes). I just want a place personally to discuss movies, video games, technology etc

[–] Zeron@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In broad strokes, yeah. I'd even consider older, more traditional forms like forums and IRC/BBS to be proto forms of social media. As long as the internet exists there will be social media, what form it takes is malleable depending on the desires of the userbase at hand.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

At that point the operational definition is just "website where you can post stuff"

[–] lud@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not to me.

Just like Reddit, it's more anonymous and the people you are interacting with don't really matter, you don't know them, they don't know you.

You just interact for a few minutes and never see each other again.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure "they don't matter" is something I could get behind. We still have every reason to remember that there's (probably) a person on the other end, one we should extend common courtesy to, and with whom we might exchange perspective-changing ideas, even if rarely.

That said I agree the "reddit" format is the one I always liked best. It just makes more sense for people who want to discuss the same things, to group up online, rather than into arbitrary parasocial masses around a select few persons, as well as the people you know IRL and may or may not have any interest in actually interacting with.

[–] cubedsteaks 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer it not be this way.

I kind of hate getting replies here and I can tell the person I'm talking to isn't paying attention to who in the thread they are talking to. It's like people aren't seeing each other as people.

[–] RhetoricalOrator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the way you describe it makes it sound like we could build an AI forum where each user is the only one in there and all the rest are ai bots whose only purpose is to generate the content and interaction we're looking for.

I think Reddit is just the beta version.