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

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Post by d1sxeyes »

rationalist wrote: post #137
watwut wrote: post #124

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Bsky actually uave linear followed accounts only feed.

Facebook has it too, or at least they did as of last year when I last used Facebook. On the desktop version of the website, click on the "Friends" "Feed" (and there might have been a sort by date as well you had to then click on).

It’s gone, but it was already too late.

Out of ten items on your feed, five would be adverts, three are reposts of some crappy influencer’s video or a meme or something, one is a friend’s marketplace listing, and if you’re lucky, the last one is a photo actually taken by a friend who you actually know.

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Post by LoganDark »

shawn_w wrote: post #149
fragmede wrote: post #107

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Lol jwz still has the HN referrer image set.

What did HN ever do to him anyways?

It seems he just doesn't like that ycombinator is in the domain name.

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Post by watwut »

mbirth wrote: post #132
watwut wrote: post #124

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Bsky actually uave linear followed accounts only feed.

Twitter has it, too.

Mine stopped working that way some time after Musk tool over - I started to get complete crap from people I did not followed.

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Post by watwut »

marssaxman wrote: post #140
codedokode wrote: post #121

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The blogosphere was all about random people writing whatever they felt like: blogging died after the professionals took over and tried to make money at it.

It died when google made it impossible to find those blogs. At some point, it stopped returning blogs that did not SEO hard and normal writing people just were not doing SEO.

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Post by onetokeoverthe »

Morromist wrote: post #90
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.

Fb is clearly hated by its owners, Meta. Its been monitized to the max and deeply neglected. They desperately want to move on to virtual reality or AI - ANYTHING to escape from having to make their money off fb. Makes one wonder what it would be like if someone else had built and maintained it who really belived in the vision of connecting communities instead of sucking them dry.

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Post by onetokeoverthe »

derwiki wrote: post #130
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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Post by bratbag »

codedokode wrote: post #121
adjejmxbdjdn wrote: post #36

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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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I would say they create more addictive content than people with lives away from social media.

But that doesnt help with building 1:1 connections.

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Post by tpm »

watwut wrote: post #154
mbirth wrote: post #132

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Twitter has it, too.

Mine stopped working that way some time after Musk tool over - I started to get complete crap from people I did not followed.

it still works in the web app - following -> recent - though I think I've got some browser extension to force that to be the default, otherwise it tended to revert to other tabs and ordering.

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Post by jandrewrogers »

nradov wrote: post #143
jandrewrogers wrote: post #68

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Americans primarily use iMessage/SMS/RCS. You only need one messaging app and everyone has it pre-installed on both iOS and Android. WhatsApp does not solve any problems for the typical American user. Most Americans don't install WhatsApp unless they spend a lot of time overseas some place where it is required to do anything. Even international group chats seem to be more Discord-based in recent years.

SMS/RCS doesn't work for any group larger than a few people. You always end up with multiple parallel streams going that each include different subsets of the group, and sometimes other random people outside the group.

This is empirically false. I am on many groups that have (at least) several dozen people over SMS/RCS/iMessage. It isn’t ideal but it definitely works adequately.

I use Signal with some groups but that is a minority. I use WhatsApp daily but only people overseas use it. Many Americans have no idea what WhatsApp is.

The practical reality is that iMessage is a legitimately superior experience to other messaging apps, and the penetration is high enough in the US that many group chats never fall back to RCS or SMS. You can’t control that but as an observation that is commonly the case. Even when it does fallback to SMS/RCS, it mostly works for many use cases.

I’ve used every messaging app under the sun, having spent a lot of time overseas. But I totally understand why Americans don’t bother with WhatsApp (or Signal) even though I do. The value-add is non-existent in the US since almost no one else uses it and the alternatives just work.

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