• mrbubblesort
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    1011 year ago

    Facebook never “died”, but no one goes there anymore either. Reddit will be the same.

    • @Gsus4@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      What is Facebook these days? My grandma spends all day on it, she hardly speaks…just swiping…when I sneak a peek, it’s just chain-mail-like bullshit one after the other with a few disguised ads for things she can’t afford in between…ugh :vomit:

        • @Gsus4@feddit.nl
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          1 year ago

          Yea, I checked worldnews today: there are these bot-like irrelevant comments on major subs, small subs abandoned…askhistorians is a little slow…maybe people are just on holiday having fun and such :D, is instagram full of holiday bragging?

      • R0cket_M00se
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        191 year ago

        I remember describing to my mom what Facebook was becoming back in like 2013/14 and she goes “Huh, sounds like what happened with email.”

        The service went from useful communication to social media style chain forwarding nonsense pretty quickly, and they went the same way with FB.

        • @Gsus4@feddit.nl
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          191 year ago

          And still email is not dead yet! I hope it’s starting to become clear to people that protocols last much longer than platforms, even if platforms look like they can test new things faster.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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            21 year ago

            Fuck yeah email!

            Good thing we got that sorted in the early stages of internet before corporations got their hands on it. Otherwise we’d have to create separate accounts to send and receive emails from gmail, outlook, and yahoo.

        • @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          111 year ago

          I don’t know about that, email is still great at what it does. It’s less that it died and more that people moved on to more real-time communication that fit their needs better, with email still being used for what it is actually good for.

          • R0cket_M00se
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            21 year ago

            Oh absolutely, it’s still highly used in a professional environment. I just feel like personal email went through the same thing and now that social media exists it’s just another way to communicate again.

            • @redwall_hp@lemmy.world
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              31 year ago

              And universities. Email is the digital version of the memorandum, which is an essential tool for any large organization.

          • R0cket_M00se
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            11 year ago

            I never said it was, just that communication technology all get used for the same time wasting shit until the next thing comes along to replace it.

      • @renrenPDX@sh.itjust.works
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        81 year ago

        It’s a haven for some older gen x and boomers. That was peak social media for them and that’s where they keep in touch mostly.

      • ddh
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        81 year ago

        When I go to the poker machine hall, it’s the same. Keep pressing the button waiting for that all-too-elusive ‘win’ to come around.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        41 year ago

        And then you can’t even do that because Zuck filled the feed with 99% ads and “recommended” groups. Sure, there’s a friend’s feed now, but it doesn’t load 95% of the time. Facebook isn’t dead because people didn’t like the site, Facebook is dead because Zuckerfuck drove a spike through its heart and then lit the corpse on fire after dousing it with gasoline.