Millennials: It’s ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how “first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.” Ouch.

  • spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    As someone who was on the internet before social media existed, please let it die in a fire.

    Everything now is curated and cultivated by corporations and political entities to weed out any “unacceptable” discourse and content that doesn’t support a particular agenda or narrative.

    • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      TBH I’m right there with you when it comes to wishing corporate social media a fiery demise.

      And yet, I’m happily using decentralized/non-profit social media that I’d very much like to see flourish. The thing I don’t like about social media today is that it’s billionaires selling personal info to people that want to direct advertising or propaganda to intellectually defenseless people, I really think democracy can’t withstand the firehose of bullshit that now empowers bad actors to lie at scale that used to require traditional media or state resources.