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It’s not advertisers that keeps users from posting. Plenty of people doom scroll on Facebook and instagram. ads hasn’t scared users away all that much. It’s th

It’s not advertisers that keeps users from posting. Plenty of people doom scroll on Facebook and instagram. ads hasn’t scared users away all that much. It’s that the platforms have been invaded by professionals coupled with an expanded “suggested for you” posts with a little bit of platforms pushing users to grow their graphs endlessly. This creates a combination where posting isn’t really for your friends, it’s for everyone and do you really want to share with everyone? While at the same time the platforms are pushing towards being a content delivery platform and not a content creation platform.

A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago
It is not just that. At this point, most people know that their online presence is scoured by entities that may be unfriendly for one reason or another, or maybe is gathering information about you ( say HR people looking at your recent Linkedin posts ). Honestly, if that is true ( and I have no real way of knowing ), I think that is a good thing. People are finally adjusting.
the_snooze 3y ago
>It’s that the platforms have been invaded by professionals coupled with an expanded “suggested for you” posts with a little bit of platforms pushing users to grow their graphs endlessly. It really shows the hubris and lack of humanity in social media platforms. Instead of letting people naturally figure out who they want to talk to and hear from, social media empowers randos to butt in on private interactions, by design.
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TheRealPomax 3y ago
You don't have to be scared away. It just needs to be shit enough that you're going to use a second social medium alongside. Then it's just a normal "use the fun one more, use the shit one less" until you realise the shit one just makes you feel like shit and you stop using it entirely. And of course, there'll always be a segment that never gets to that realization, keeping the corpse animated.

A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago

It is not just that. At this point, most people know that their online presence is scoured by entities that may be unfriendly for one reason or another, or maybe is gathering information about you ( say HR people looking at your recent Linkedin posts ). Honestly, if that is true ( and I have no real way of knowing ), I think that is a good thing. People are finally adjusting.

the_snooze 3y ago

>It’s that the platforms have been invaded by professionals coupled with an expanded “suggested for you” posts with a little bit of platforms pushing users to grow their graphs endlessly. It really shows the hubris and lack of humanity in social media platforms. Instead of letting people naturally figure out who they want to talk to and hear from, social media empowers randos to butt in on private interactions, by design.

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TheRealPomax 3y ago

You don't have to be scared away. It just needs to be shit enough that you're going to use a second social medium alongside. Then it's just a normal "use the fun one more, use the shit one less" until you realise the shit one just makes you feel like shit and you stop using it entirely. And of course, there'll always be a segment that never gets to that realization, keeping the corpse animated.