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Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

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Post by codedokode »

adjejmxbdjdn wrote: post #36
alexpotato wrote: post #23

Back in 2005-ish era, I helped reboot a college club (I was the coach/advisor). We started out using forum software to co-ordinate what we were doing but eventually (2008-ish) switched to Facebook as the president of the club pointed out "Alex, everyone is already on Facebook and the notifications from us are in the middle of the notifications for when the next party is" etc. Fast forward to today and the club is reb…

The terminology explains what happened. The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network. At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications. Since then, it’s become social Media. It’s now about centralized structures broadcasting messages to subscribers and followers. The only difference from the past is who the broadcasters can be, but it’s no longer about building networks…

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Post by CoolestBeans »

Its simple. Nobody is posting because nobody is going to read your posts. The intense dive into algorithmic feeds over chronological ones sourced from your friends means that nobody is going to see your posts. Nobody is going to comment on them. Nobody is going to acknowledge they even exist. Everyone understands this, at least subconsciously, so nobody's gonna post. Besides, all that stuff moved into group chats anyways.

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Post by codedokode »

dbingham wrote: post #54
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what the Bluesky “AT Protocol” is meant to solve, though I fear it might be a bit too late.

Except AT Protocol can't do the very thing that made Facebook the commons: privacy. There's a proposal to add privacy to the protocol (private posts, private groups), but I don't think anyone has solved the real root problem with trying to implement privacy in a federated system (as opposed to P2P), which is the bad administrator problem. The proposal I saw still relied on trustworthy app administrators to respect a…

For privacy you should be using Matrix private chat with E2EE, no? So maybe we just need to add channels like in Telegram to Matrix?

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Post by watwut »

rickcarlino wrote: post #89

Social media companies became so obsessed about maximizing ROI on short form video content that they stopped being a platform to share with friends and turned into Temu Youtube. You won’t see your friends stuff on any of them because it’s designed to work that way. Group chats are the only way to have a meaningful conversation if you a casual non-technical Internet dweller.

Bsky actually uave linear followed accounts only feed.

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Post by watwut »

rTX5CMRXIfFG wrote: post #111
AndrewDucker wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great if you're cultivating a very small group of friends who are local. Social media is how I keep vaguely aware of what's going on with my friends who now live scattered across the planet and get to see in person once per decade or so.

I’m gonna break it to you bud, the people you see only once a decade or so aren’t your friends. Those are shallow acquaintances that you’re letting drag on for too long. They’re not a part of your life and you’re not a part of theirs. At most, you can call them professional contacts whom you hope to get some value out of in the future, and in that sense I’d agree — social media makes it possible to keep in touch with…

They dont drag me. They add positive stuff to my life, once in a while, and that is super cool. And they dont ask much in exchange, just for me to not be a jerk in that situation.

And all of them are relationships with someone I already know, can ve safer around then random and some of them grow again into more active friendships in right situation.

And yes, that friendship happens again thing is real.

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Post by brudgers »

teddyh wrote: post #98
brudgers wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Subject lines have always been the best way and most emails could be nothing but subject line if blank bodies were allowed. But because subject lines are more work and people who love sending email tend to love it because it is very low effort, the venn of email senders and those who write subject lines is small.

Here’s how you do it: https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html >

Threading does not change the ways email sucks.

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Post by cvwright »

rimeice wrote: post #7
halflife wrote: post #4

Back to 2015, I stopped posting on Facebook when I noticed that it’s no longer about connecting with my friends, but a never ending stream of boring posts from groups and people that I don’t know or care to follow. All my “social” life just moved to direct communication in WhatsApp (meta owned as well)

2015 for me too. I wonder if there was some early day over juicing of the attention mechanism that put people off in that year, before they tuned it to reduce churn…

It was a big year for the culture war. People who had previously been cordial suddenly needed to fight each other over politics and other controversies of the day. The rest of us watched this happen, then slowly backed away.

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Post by derwiki »

busymom0 wrote: post #102
baby wrote: post #85

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We really need a real facebook app again, something we only use with close friends or people we meet irl to become friends

I am currently building something where you can post once per day. If you want to post again within the 24 hour window, the prior post gets replaced with the new one and it also shows at the old post's timestamp in the chronological feed. As for connecting to people, you drag and drop the connect button into a folder name which you want their posts to show in. For example, You can create custom folders for friends, f…

My 2c: the problem I see is not about unbounded post frequency, it’s about ads

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Post by derwiki »

Smalltalker-80 wrote: post #10
insickness wrote: post #9

To keep people engaged, social media platforms have shifted from showing you content from people you know to prioritizing viral content. The algorithms know viral content offers an endless stream of entertainment that keeps people scrolling longer.

Like the writer I'm also a 'boomer' still keeping connected to an older friend group using Facebook and Instagram. For Facebook, I use the plugin "FB Purity" to filter out the generated cr*p posts and force chronological order. It's shocking too see how few posts are left, by agressive algorithm filtering and FB then deciding that "You're all caught up", refusing to show more posts. So my FB time is about 20 seconds…

That’s Reddit for me: I subscribe to the sub for my city, and that’s it. It’s a finite scroll that usually takes 5 minutes, and then I move on

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Post by derwiki »

CM30 wrote: post #45

Probably a crazy though, but I sometimes wonder if the pandemic/lockdowns did a number on social media activity too. Maybe a lot of people got burnt out on the whole thing after spending 2-3 years stuck inside with social media as their only way to communicate with friends and family. That seems to be the point where most communities and social sites I'm on lost a lot of their activity/enjoyment, and where people see…

Where did pandemic restrictions stay in effect for 2-3 years? SF took restrictions fairly seriously and by March 2022 they seemed non-existent
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