So where are we all supposed to go now?
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Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.

An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore…

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s hard for social media to go away for good.

    But reddit will be like Facebook. Some people go there, but to the vast amount of people it’s a joke.

    Hell, Fark is still going

    • marmo7ade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      But reddit will be like Facebook. Some people go there, but to the vast amount of people it’s a joke.

      Facebook currently has 2 billion monthly users, 4x more than reddit.

      “Some” people go to reddit. For the majority of people (facebook), reddit is a joke.

      The perception that facebook is dead is just as misinformed as the perception that reddit is will be “like facebook”. Reddit has not even reached facebook status, and probably never will.