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_haha_oh_wow_ ,
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I think I’d rather celebrate it…

hedgehogging_the_bed ,

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.

dragonflyteaparty ,

How about gaia? No one is on it anymore. That’s where I first started to learn HTML.

hedgehogging_the_bed ,

Oldest Millennials were almost too old for Gaia. We were 18-22 at it’s launch in 2003.

I got my start on Alamak Chat in late 1995 but I had friends who had already been on IRC or Usenet for years prior to that.

wazzupdog ,

Usenet is still quite active. Especially in the piracy field, as a forum for discussion, it’s pretty dead though.

Blackmist ,

Imagine mourning the death of social media.

I mourn its creation.

Luisp ,

More like piss over the grave

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Bots and spam have ruined social media for me. I wish there was a private social media.

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Private as in owned by megacorp?

gandalf_der_12te ,

I think he means private as in “only me and my friends”.

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

/var/mail

gandalf_der_12te ,

User Interface maybe?

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

mailx

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Private as in only visible to the people you explicitly send it to.

alonely0 ,

Gen Z, I mourned Reddit for 30 seconds. Now I’m here.

Resol ,
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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.

21Cabbage ,

I’m not mourning, I’ve just done what I’ve done every few years for at least a decade now and just found a new fucking home. Plus, I think this and mastodon will be my home for awhile now since the decentralized nature of it makes it really easy to avoid the bullshit that brought me here.

uis ,
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Funfact: you can post here from mastodon. AFAIR post structure should be:


<span style="color:#323232;">Title
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">URL(optional)
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Community
</span>
21Cabbage ,

Yeah I’m more of a reader on mastodon than a poster, honestly my contributions here are mostly bantering in the comments and finding sources for porn.

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

There is porn here?

21Cabbage ,

The entirety of my home instance? Do you have ‘hide NSFW’ selected in your settings?

wazzupdog ,

There’s a whole NSFW instance.

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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.

spyd3r ,
@spyd3r@sh.itjust.works avatar

As someone who was on the internet before social media existed, please let it die in a fire.

Everything now is curated and cultivated by corporations and political entities to weed out any “unacceptable” discourse and content that doesn’t support a particular agenda or narrative.

HessiaNerd ,

Were BBSs social media?

They were decentralized. If not federated, definitely connected in many aspects.

I was thinking of standing up an instance of this

enigma-bbs.github.io

Just for friends and family

Cethin ,

In of the opinion the term social media needs to be broken into two groups. Ones where you’re yourself by name and one’s where you’re an online handle. The “personal” social media are all garbage, but there’s some alright “unpersonal” social media, like Lemmy for example. BBSs would mostly be the later, but probably would be social media if the term existed when they were popular

Adalast ,

100% agree. I was learning networking and internet coding back when Javascript was new, web 2.0 was going to revolutionize our lives, and Macromedia was releasing a little animation software called Flash. As an elder Millenial I can confidently say that the death of social media would be the absolute best thing that could happen for our society as a whole. The society was not mature enough for it, still aren’t. Maybe next time it is invented we will be ready and someone will remember to keep the damn corporations out of it.

BeautifulMind ,
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TBH I’m right there with you when it comes to wishing corporate social media a fiery demise.

And yet, I’m happily using decentralized/non-profit social media that I’d very much like to see flourish. The thing I don’t like about social media today is that it’s billionaires selling personal info to people that want to direct advertising or propaganda to intellectually defenseless people, I really think democracy can’t withstand the firehose of bullshit that now empowers bad actors to lie at scale that used to require traditional media or state resources.

Cowbee ,

The worst is the ever-shortening of content into an addictive format. It reduces mental clarity.

RichCaffeineFlavor ,

Anxiety and depression reduce mental clarity. And people tend towards shorter forms of content when they’re trying to distract themselves. The egg came before the chicken.

csolisr ,

On one hand, it’s a bit sad to see the average person not know about the Fediverse and claim “welp, there’s nowhere else to go, it’s either staying on the same ten junkyards I know or quitting cold-turkey”. On the other hand, the relative obscurity kind of comes from the fact that there’s no single main instance of the Fediverse. Sure there’s things like Mastodon.Social, Lemmy.ML and Misskey.GG that concentrate most users of their niche, but by nature, there is not (and should not be) a centralized place where everybody is, that can be used as the poster child for the Fediverse.

Reygle ,
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I for one celebrate the inevitable crash/death of all this social media. It’s turned normal people into unacceptable drooling trash. That is if you’re able to ignore the data collection and use of it, in which case it turned the whole internet into a dumpster fire as well.

s_s ,

It’s turned normal people into unacceptable drooling trash.

They always were. Social media just gave them a platform to you.

Reygle ,
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It also gave those trash people the feeling of “look I’m not alone” and amplified all of it. At least before people were worried about being seen as a fuckwit.

Mrkawfee ,

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.

Meowoem ,

‘life isn’t as fun as it was when I was younger, it must be the internet’s fault’

AlijahTheMediocre ,

The world in general is far shittier than it was a decade ago, internet included.

Meowoem ,

I too preferred being young, things were exciting and fresh back then not jaded and worn down by decades of grind as my dreams one by one crumble to dust while my own mortality starts to loom on the horizon…

Almost everything is better than it was when we were kids and it’s a tough pill but it’s reality.

We used to watch television at specific times because there would be a documentary about something interesting and it wouldn’t be exactly what you want but if you like nature or science or something it’s your only choice - if you’re super lucky the people who made it would have briefly talked with someone who kinda understands the subject.

YouTube and other VOD services have completely ended that tyranny, you’d be very hard pressed to find a subject I couldn’t find you free to watch videos from knowledgeable and passionate people deeply involved in the field. YouTube even has far less adverts than TV, adverts you can skip after five seconds - we used to have to go make a cup of tea every fifteen minutes because the breaks were so long, that was our idea of an addblocker.

Have you ever been to a library to do your homework and found that someone else has the volume of brittanica you need so you just have to wait two hours while they lean on it and chat with their friends? If you’re only looking back ten years to your youth then proubably you haven’t, kids today certainly haven’t - I have though and so have most people my age. That’s what progress is, incredibly easy not to notice things getting better beside we only tend to think about problems when we encounter them. All today’s problems are fresh and we forgot what problems we had back then.

More people have better access to improved medical care, more access to education, more access to basic necessities AND luxuries, it’s easier than ever to travel, to learn new skills, make friends based on a shared interest, there’s an unprecedented amount of free entertainment in pretty much every form.

But we’re tired and busy and struggling to make ends meet - just like adults were when we young and didn’t have to worry about anything but b3ta’s Photoshop Friday and which custom doom wad to try next.

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