Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

It’s not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore::Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one’s posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

  • @[email protected]English
    30•1 year ago

    That’s not true. I post on Lemmy and Mastodon, which I consider social media. I don’t think that websites that communication based on algorithms aiming to serve unsocial purposes should be considered social media.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      I think there’s two types really. There’s the “hey family, look at my photos and shit that nobody else will care about” social media, and “screaming opinions into the void” social media.

      Lemmy and Mastodon are the latter. I guess you can use Mastodon as the former, but I suspect there are better places for that, even if they’re currently spread across a dozen instant messaging apps.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      I was gonna react without reading the article, because the interaction is what I use lemmy for, and what I used reddit for, the social part of social media.

      Anyway, I thought the post was talking about things we like sharing with our friends, families, colleagues, and other groups of acquaintances, which was confirmed by reading the first anecdote, which is of someone talking about sharing what they cooked.

      I have always preferred messaging groups for such sharing, so to me it’s not too much of a shock, but I have noticed what the article claims and have enjoyed being able to withdraw from most vapid forms of social media without disconnecting from friends entirely.