Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow
Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow
A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.
Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.
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let all social media die in flames.
its nothing but a cancer on society and counts among the worst ills to befall mankind.
So, uh, why do you post here?
Because Lemmy is a forum, not social media.
Forums are a thing from the archaic ages before you kids thought phones were the only way to be online. 👴
For what it's worth, I agree with you about Lemmy (and Reddit) not really qualifying as "social media." I think of it more as a spectrum than a binary value...
- Old school forums were very specific to a single topic (though most forums I used did have an "Off Topic" board), and only lightly social -- I never knew any forum user outside of their respective forum, and certainly not in real life.
- On the opposite end, Facebook/Insta/TikTok are very social -- there's a lot of expectation that you'll be interacting with people that you know personally -- and they are more "agnostic" (?) of any one particular topic.
- Reddit and Lemmy land somewhere in between those two extremes, in terms of both the social and topical aspects. But neither cross the line into "social media," at least not for me and my personal definition of the term.
And just to split hairs even a little more, I think Lemmy is more palatable* than Reddit for me, by virtue of the smaller (and generally more tech-savvy) user base.
E: Spelling (thank you, WelcomeBear!)
I just wanted to mention that I got a chuckle out of the word “pallettable” because it’s not quite right but I totally see how you got there. I thought you might like to know that the word is “palatable.”
A palette is the board that a painter uses to hold paint, a pallet is something you pick up with a forklift and a palate is the roof of your mouth/your tasting skill. So something that’s pallettable sounds like something tasty that you’d smear all over a giant board and forklift onto a truck.
Fucking English, lolLemmy definitely has a younger and less experienced, educated user base.
Tech-savy, yes.
You kids, ha. I'm hitting 40 soon, and Lemmy is absolutely as much social media as Reddit is, just different scale and technological underpinning. Don't be high and mighty about it, you can easily burn as much time scrolling through Lemmy communities.
Being able to burn time on something doesnt make it social media.
No, but he's right, it is, and they are.
Lemmy is a media that allows you to be social.
Forums are also social media.
by that definition bathroom walls are social media.
They are social, a busy bar bathroom? You'll make a friend for life in there. There's little media though. Unless they have TVs inside the bathroom/stalls, and I wouldn't really count music since the focus isn't the music but doing your business.
Well, you can make it social with a large drill bit through the stall walls.
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I like how you think that's a clever rebuttal, when it's actually correct.
Social medium, but close enough.
That's like saying Twitter isn't social media because its a microblog. Lemmy is definitely social media. We have profiles, can add each other as friends, send private messages, etc. It's not structured the same as most other social media websites, but it is social media
I love how angry the truth makes Lemmy users.
lEMmy iS a FORum!
🤦 ffs. you really are dumb as shit.
Boy you really just love stalking my posts and replying to me everywhere dont you.
I know you miss your daddy and need a new, strong figure in your life. but its not me.
it's the same post, you retard.
You know, when I first started to become active on Internet communities as a preteen in the early-to-mid-2000s, I don't think anyone really used the term "social media" to describe them. The term may have existed already, but I didn't think of myself as a user of "social media" at all at the time.
At the time we had web forums run on software like phpBB. Later I discovered wikis and blogs. I have no idea when people started to insist on using the strange term "social media" which may or may not include all those things. Is Reddit/Lemmy "social media"? It certainly differs from most other "social media" in significant ways: we mostly don't use our real names, we don't have followers, we mainly communicate with random strangers rather than the people we know IRL. This is a lot more similar to traditional web forums than to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X/Mastodon, etc.
It is still very similar. Reddit and Lemmy are now primarily fluff content. I've had to block dozens of fluff subs on Lemmy. And misinformation and toxic/unintelligent users are a problem here too.
Wdym by fluff?
fluff
Low-quality, mindless content designed to keep mindless people infinitely scrolling.
Opinion only applies to others' habits.
