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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[โ€“] HERRAX@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worst part is that they actually started out kind of great, and killed all alternatives. Then they became progressively worse because of their predatory algorithms and whatnot, and now it's borderline impossible to get friends and family to switch to an alternative like mastodon or pixelfed...

[โ€“] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

From those annoying af fb "games" to those goddamn algorithms.