Hopefully it's just the death of surveillance and fake news infested social media with censors ensuring you don't deviate from the Overton window.
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Actually, I think I'm kinda okay with the "death" of social media. I mean, I'm already on this platform a lot, so...I guess I'm not missing much?
Is this their first platform death? Come on, Wired!
Millennials have been losing platforms on the Internet for pretty much the whole history of the Internet. Just a handful of "social media" type services that have risen and fallen in my years of the internet: AOL Instant Message, ICQ, IRC, Usenet, LiveJournal, MySpace, on and on.
Most of these aren't even properly "dead", many I just.mentioned still have big user groups too. They just lost a critical user share when folks moved on.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In Wired, Jason Parham writes about how first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.
Indeed, millennials have soured on the big social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram feel dead.
There's a lot of ways to feel about this: maybe relief, maybe anger at the companies who messed things up.
But Parham made me feel something different: sad.
He points out that "first-gen" users (like me) were part of a "golden age of connectivity," and for those years, it really was exciting.
I'm sad that golden age is over, and I'm not sure we'll ever experience anything like it again.
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wow thanks so much
Um, FIDOnet and USEnet were pretty awesome, thank you.
I was on some network that rose after MySpace but before Facebook and realized that wasn't for me.
Censorship and Centralized manner killed all the goodness.
The Wired article in question: https://www.wired.com/story/first-gen-social-media-users-have-nowhere-to-go/
If traditional social media platforms die, then most of their users will move to federated ones and end up turning those into dumpster fires. I'm a Reddit migrant and I've already noticed Reddit behavior just a couple weeks in, also known as "not good". I'm getting the vibe that Mastodon could suffer from this a few months or years from now due to Elon Musk's questionable decisions regarding Twitt- I mean X, and the fact that nobody uses Threads anymore (it's basically a giant Israel-Palestine debate right now). I'm not sure about PixelFed or PeerTube or any of the other ActivityPub alternatives to traditional platforms.
Is it worth adding the "van Lemmy" suffix to my username? Yeah, it sounds more Flemish (I am not from Flanders), and it reveals to the world that I'm some random loser from the fediverse, even though I've only ever spent a few months here. Also, there's probably a few other folks who refer to themselves as "Resol", so it kinda makes me stand out.