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Social Media Is Dead

18 points by herbertl 4y ago

BirAdam 4y ago
I quit social media early. Mostly, my various feeds of stuff became a ridiculous mixture of calumny and claver. I lost interest. Chin wagging is best left to the AFK world. HN here is the closest thing I get to social media these days and this is far more similar to a forum than it is to social media.
boberoni 4y ago
Social media is changing, but not dead. Maybe the idea of what we “want” social media to be, is dead. There will always be a demand for social status. And, as long as there is sufficient demand, there will be supply. Eugene Wei[1] has written a lot about how online social media operates in the economy of social status. It applies to TikTok and LinkedIn alike. [1] https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service
the-anarchist 4y ago
That title is (unfortunately) not true.
- abracadaniel 4y ago
  The genie can’t go back in the bottle on this one, but I think we’re in for a period of flux. Something new will emerge, but nothing looks like an obvious migration path, as in the Digg -> Reddit jump.
  - mathlover2 4y ago
    Agreed. We are in for a period of flux, even if the article is crap.
badcarbine 4y ago
Feels like we’re in cyberpunk 2077 with all the options to be honest
ekianjo 4y ago
Another journalist in desperate need for clicks
mathlover2 4y ago
I feel like I could write a blog post about the issues with this Vice article if I were so inclined, but my biggest problem is that it selectively casts social media as trending towards "YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, and an endless number of streaming platforms" because apparently YouTube is a brand new site, Twitch is doing well rather than being in decline, and Discord, being an ad-free chatroom service, obviously doesn't even exist. Also for an article that says somewhat positive things about Mastodon/Fediverse, the author sure hasn't used it, because the only accounts I can find from them are two non-functional Twitter mirror bots.
JohnClark1337 4y ago
FrontierPsych 4y ago
Been hearing about Mastadon. But issues with it, too, in terms of moderation and other stuff. I don't think there can really be a social media. Someone is always offended by something.

18 points by herbertl 4y ago

I quit social media early. Mostly, my various feeds of stuff became a ridiculous mixture of calumny and claver. I lost interest. Chin wagging is best left to the AFK world. HN here is the closest thing I get to social media these days and this is far more similar to a forum than it is to social media.

boberoni 4y ago

Social media is changing, but not dead. Maybe the idea of what we “want” social media to be, is dead. There will always be a demand for social status. And, as long as there is sufficient demand, there will be supply. Eugene Wei[1] has written a lot about how online social media operates in the economy of social status. It applies to TikTok and LinkedIn alike. [1] https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

the-anarchist 4y ago

That title is (unfortunately) not true.

abracadaniel 4y ago
The genie can’t go back in the bottle on this one, but I think we’re in for a period of flux. Something new will emerge, but nothing looks like an obvious migration path, as in the Digg -> Reddit jump.
- mathlover2 4y ago
  Agreed. We are in for a period of flux, even if the article is crap.

badcarbine 4y ago

Feels like we’re in cyberpunk 2077 with all the options to be honest

ekianjo 4y ago

Another journalist in desperate need for clicks

mathlover2 4y ago

I feel like I could write a blog post about the issues with this Vice article if I were so inclined, but my biggest problem is that it selectively casts social media as trending towards "YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, and an endless number of streaming platforms" because apparently YouTube is a brand new site, Twitch is doing well rather than being in decline, and Discord, being an ad-free chatroom service, obviously doesn't even exist. Also for an article that says somewhat positive things about Mastodon/Fediverse, the author sure hasn't used it, because the only accounts I can find from them are two non-functional Twitter mirror bots.

JohnClark1337 4y ago

FrontierPsych 4y ago

Been hearing about Mastadon. But issues with it, too, in terms of moderation and other stuff. I don't think there can really be a social media. Someone is always offended by something.