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.

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.

  • MentalEdge@ani.socialEnglish
    822·
    1 year ago

    Like for real!! I was a semi-lurker on reddit. Posted a couple times a year.

    I just passed 500 posts on Lemmy.

    • Weslee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      I’ve found lemmy to be alot less hostile, don’t care about downvotes, but attacking people because of opinions doesn’t sound like a fun time to me

      • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        1 year ago

        The absence of a running karma total is a surprisingly powerful difference. I do still look back at old posts, and it’s nice when there’s votes, but without the little number next to a name or when I mouse-over a profile, there’s no motivation to be the first in a thread to repost a cliche joke or to ragebait for fake internet points.

        • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I hated most of those cliche jokes. Here I am looking for real conversation only to be met with thousands of not witty low effort jokes.

          • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            There are some starting here too, I swear to god if I see one more, “Good bot” reply to a fucking bot account I may stroke out. I don’t know why, but that one really grinds my gears.

            • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I think that on some bots it is meant as feedback on its performance but to have 10 users give the same feedback is kinda annoying. Maybe Lemmy can have a feature were humans can approve/disapprove bot performance that doesn’t involve upvote/downvote. It would only be available to bot accounts in the site’s UI. Could possibly expand it’s functionality to something more useful. Or just use the voting system because it’s already in place.

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy definitely has a more chill, human vibe than I got with Reddit, given how overrun the latter was with vast armies of shills, bots, alt right trolls, etc.

        Not that it’s all rainbow-pooping unicorns frolicking through flowery meadows here but at least the dick comments tend to be much rarer and often a one off for the person making them.

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Opinions are fine. Being disingenuous/an asshole at the same time as having an opinion definitely provokes smackdowns, even on lemmy.

      • pjhenry1216@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Profiles are rarely accurate. I viewed the same profile from two different instances (yes the same profile, not the same username from two different instances) and they didn’t even have the age of thr account the same. One was 2 years, one was 2 months. So I wouldn’t trust that. I’d only trust it if you’re logged into that very instance.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          In this case it’s more likely to be because that’s one of my alts. This is my main.