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Early social media (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) was a free alternative to paying someone to run, patch, and scale your own website/blog. It gave a lot of people

Early social media (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) was a free alternative to paying someone to run, patch, and scale your own website/blog. It gave a lot of people opportunity to create their own communities and engage with them in a more convenient and immediate way than blogs or forums. The fun lasted for as long as free VC money was there and when that ran out they all went downhill. I am removing my social media posts, closing accounts, and going back to a website with a blog. Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of them are the new MySpace near its end days, they can run on fake accounts and bullshit content for a while, but advertisers will eventually learn that the audiences have gone elsewhere. That other place won't be another social media network, because spammers, bot devs, and mass-manufacturers of crap content are so well prepared that they can start flooding any new platform with their digital manure almost immediately.

mrkramer 2y ago
>Early social media (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) was a free alternative to paying someone to run, patch, and scale your own website/blog. It gave a lot of people opportunity to create their own communities and engage with them in a more convenient and immediate way than blogs or forums. Exactly, it brought the complexity down dramatically for discovering and connecting with people online. >I am removing my social media posts, closing accounts, and going back to a website with a blog. Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of them are the new MySpace near its end days, they can run on fake accounts and bullshit content for a while, but advertisers will eventually learn that the audiences have gone elsewhere. I think a good idea would be; if somebody could make vanilla Facebook which was meant to connect you with friends and family but more privacy focused. Everything you do on Facebook is logged and fed into some kind of social graph and algorithm and eventually sold to advertisers. We already have more streamlined and privacy focused email and search engine alternatives but we don't have a private social network equivalent of Facebook. I think paying a few bucks for a monthly subscription in exchange for smaller, more secure and privacy focused version of Facebook wouldn't be a problem for people who want to stay private and off the Big Tech's grid.
debian3 3y ago
The fun lasted for as long as free VC money was there and when that ran out they all went downhill. I feel that’s where we are with ai at the moment. I guess at some point they will answer withs ads
- surfingdino 3y ago
  Yes. It will go downhill even faster, because AI has a problem of not providing anything of value that would generate a network effect to attract users and keep them on site. With social media there was peer pressure to join and stay, with AI there is none of that.

mrkramer 2y ago

>Early social media (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) was a free alternative to paying someone to run, patch, and scale your own website/blog. It gave a lot of people opportunity to create their own communities and engage with them in a more convenient and immediate way than blogs or forums. Exactly, it brought the complexity down dramatically for discovering and connecting with people online. >I am removing my social media posts, closing accounts, and going back to a website with a blog. Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of them are the new MySpace near its end days, they can run on fake accounts and bullshit content for a while, but advertisers will eventually learn that the audiences have gone elsewhere. I think a good idea would be; if somebody could make vanilla Facebook which was meant to connect you with friends and family but more privacy focused. Everything you do on Facebook is logged and fed into some kind of social graph and algorithm and eventually sold to advertisers. We already have more streamlined and privacy focused email and search engine alternatives but we don't have a private social network equivalent of Facebook. I think paying a few bucks for a monthly subscription in exchange for smaller, more secure and privacy focused version of Facebook wouldn't be a problem for people who want to stay private and off the Big Tech's grid.

debian3 3y ago

The fun lasted for as long as free VC money was there and when that ran out they all went downhill. I feel that’s where we are with ai at the moment. I guess at some point they will answer withs ads

surfingdino 3y ago
Yes. It will go downhill even faster, because AI has a problem of not providing anything of value that would generate a network effect to attract users and keep them on site. With social media there was peer pressure to join and stay, with AI there is none of that.