First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
The reality is that nothing is really dying and nothing is really changing. Twitter is still fully operational and other than a small hit nothing happened. Twitch already did a step back. For Reddit we’ll see but only a really small percentage of reddit is using third party apps.
It’s not the services that are dying, but the internet as we used to know.
Change is natural, but the services are all changing in a way not beneficial forthe users.
I think the “the internet is dying” perspectives are all incredibly overblown. They aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. I remember all of the “Facebook is dead, I don’t know anyone using Facebook!” posts, but I suspect many here are invested in some index fund that is being pulled upwards by Meta.
But how many people are still exchanging facebook contacts? Because I haven’t met anyone anymore …
A significant point would be that I’ll just find you when I get home if I cared enough about our interaction.
Good point! I suspect it’s a lot more than we think. My parents are definitively still involved in doing this.
But on the other hand, does exchanging contacts mean anything to Facebook anymore? I don’t think that’s important to their income stream anymore. If the OP meant “these sites are still going strong but aren’t what they were when they began”, then of course I agree.
I was never much into the Facebook thing because I didn’t join it at its peak, but when already most people I would have connected stopped using it.
But I remember there was a time where when you met someone and wanted to stay in contact you exchanged the facebook info.
Nowdays its Line.
I don’t think I have any social media I ask for when I meet someone besides their number (and hopefully they are using Signal 😎)
Signal is the way to go :)
Isn’t like a Japanese thing? I only have heard about it in anime.
Japan, and larger Asian area, I think Korea, Taiwan too.
This is the natural cycle. Big sites get greedy and kill off the user base for a payout and we go to the next one. The fact reddit kept alive for so long is surprising but it take a lot for people to bother moving.
Also pretty much everyone 25-45 in my local area is still very much using Facebook.
In my area (metro big city), the only way to get anything accomplished from an advocacy/fundraising aspect is through facebook. There’s just no alternative unless literally everyone shifts to an alternative that hasn’t been created yet.
Facebook is big in paintball circles. As much as I hate to say it their format works exceedingly well for organizing and buying/selling. As long as we censor appropriately it’s arguably the best format we’ve had thus far and I’m not sure anyone would be willing to part with it for a new platform.
Meta is trying to diversify away from Facebook though… Hence the name change.
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Talking about use, not how much the company is worth. It was overinflated anyway like many of s&p500
I don’t think it’s fair to say nothing is changing, but “dying” admittedly seems like hyperbole.
Organizations can die slowly or not at all but still be gravely damaged. They are almost certainly making these moves to capture the least critical (most profitable) portions of their userbases and hunker down for survival. Even if the change is extremely painful, they’re (likely) planning for the specific goal of avoiding total death.