Facebook in some countries is a necessity because it acts like The Everything website. it’s like the WeChat of southeast Asia
Again? 2019…2013…and however many other “exodus” articles are written. Facebook is still the biggest. Must be a slow news day.
Are there still any non-boomers left on Facebook?
I’m not really ON facebook. But way too many of my friends use it as a way to send invites to events. I literally just pop in every other week to check notifications and see if anybody invited me to anything. It’s kind of infuriating how no other method makes it so easy to just invite 20 people somewhere.
The fediverse doesn’t have a decent calendar/invite solution does it?
Yes, loads. It’s very useful for non-anonymous groups + events.
Not really, but Instagram and WhatsApp are still massive
If Twitter hasn’t had a mass exodus I’m not holding it hope for any other social media. The fact of the matter is the majority of the public just don’t care.
Apparently a bunch of blue checks got really pissed about, of all things, Elon faking his Path of Exile 2 cred. I’m annoyed that that’s what it took for some people to finally realize he’s a piece of shit, but you know what, doing the right thing for a stupid reason is still doing the right thing. Regardless who knows if it’ll result in any large number of people leaving. All I know is that it blew up on Reddit, according to this news here which I recommend you watch:
I mean it kinda has. It wasn’t an insta-kill but users have dropped dramatically and it’s still dropping
https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/
Rebranded as “X” in July 2023 under Elon Musk’s leadership, the platform saw a 15% drop in monthly active users soon after. Despite this, with 611 million monthly active users…
“X” is doing just fine.
Depends on who is leaving, I’d say. The biggest draw to Twitter, from my outside perspective anyway, is news. Headlines, sure, but especially live, on the ground coverage.
If news orgs quit X, that’ll be a big blow. Some left already, but I can’t remember who it was off the top of my head.
But if breaking news, like protesters posting updates live, start coming majority from somewhere other than X (most likely Bluesky at this point), that will really signal the beginning of the end for Xs relevancy.
Just my $.02, to be taken with a large grain of salt.
Yes, if that were to happen it would be a big blow. It hasn’t happened despite all the things, so I’m not holding my breath.
I wonder how many of those are bots or paid trolls
I’m still seeing Twitter posts on Lemmy frequently. It doesn’t matter if they’re bots or paid, the site is still being used and posts are still being passed around.
why prefix the hash tag with Hello? Isn’t #QuitMeta better?
Theres no app for us artists to post our art and get work other then instagram (or twitter but fuck that).
Have you heard of Pixelfed?
Yea i used it for a while a year it two ago and figured its not worth my time since it doesnt have a userbase or any thing to attract people to move to it
See my comment here https://slrpnk.net/comment/13170801
Are you also using Pixelfed?
No, just like everybody else who isnt using it 😅 its stillll not on the app store after like 6 years and now the dev is working on Loops. Also theres no decent discovery with only the single chronological feed. Bluesky and an instagram clone using the at protocol will be easier for us to migrate to because feeds help discovery a ton.
There’s an official app for Pixelfed on iOS and Android.
Are people who offer work for artists using Pixelfed?
No idea, but if there’s no one there to offer work to…
Just don’t use Social Media? Idk why people keep using this dogshit as if they expect it to change. JUST STOP FUCKING USING IT. You’ll be thanking me later for the boost in mental health.
Really not a reasonable take. Social media is great for discovering new things, people, and groups of interest. Sure, you can do that outside of social media too, but in a much slower and more limited way.
Also, lots of housebound disabled people use social media for their main source of socializing.
Isn’t Lemmy social media, or am I overlooking something?
Every media that allows you to be social, like interacting with other users, is a social media.
A movie is not, but a news website that allows comments is, any forum is as well.
Don’t let others convince you with arbitrary conditions just because they don’t like that their favourite media is a social media.
It is but it’s not the same. There’s something fundamentally different about social media that links your real identity to your comments. Also here I can easily just not sub to political communities. On other social media it’s very hard to get rid of.
I explained it to my friends about why I only used Reddit and now Lemmy:
I think social media attached directly to Ego is toxic and harmful. On more anonymous social media, ideas(content) at least tends to rise or fall on their own merits, rather than on the prior popularity of the individual saying them.
I’m here for cool ideas, concepts, and discussions, not popularity contests which most social media platforms are.
I don’t think anything exits on its own merit on the whole wide universe, but that is another discussion to be had.
Content here seems to rise and fall if they fit the narrative the community wants to push. I was quite active on r/collapse and it only got The doom stuff about climate change. Positive messages were filtered out. That’s just one example, but it seems to be how Lemmy works and Reddit used to work before it was invaded by bots.
I’d argue that is pushing the ego too. It’s a way to reaffirm the worldview one holds over and over. And that is, I think, a very ego driven thing, since we all strife to be right about things.
Huh, a friendica post in the wild on the Lemmy.world front page. Cool!
But if its Activity Pub then why doesn’t it open in my app? I have to click it and open in an external web browser
Well, it’s posted here as a link, so I guess it’s not here via federation.
Also I think different fedi apps support different AP content types, so possible that Lemmy can’t display it?
You will see it more ;)
Nope, my fb friends never leave.
Didn’t happen to Twitter. Didn’t happen to Reddit. Won’t happen to Meta.
It’s already happened to Facebook. And it’s happening to Twitter. And Reddit. This stuff takes time, but the character and feel of each service has shifted considerably.
The phrase used was not “shifted considerably”, it’s “mass exodus”.
The mass exodus from the Facebook platform has already happened. The others are in progress.
Kinda blows my mind that people think that shit is going to happen over night… That’s hundreds of millions of people…
Good riddance. Sadly I think it will take another generation before the boomers wake up
I think it will take another generation before the boomers
wake updie.FTFY
Seriously, why can’t they just die already.
Many are, genx is now the conservative generation.
Good thing most of them will be dead by then.
I’ve noticed a significant change in my Facebook feed recently. It’s almost all content creator content now, which I’m taking as a sign that my network is no longer posting there.
Bigger question. Honest question.
Why are YOU still there???
Y’all would be surprised how many Facebook users there are outside of the west. In my home country of Vietnam Facebook is like Twitter+Reddit+more. It’s the most popular social media app. Everyone is on Facebook. The government posts news on Facebook, academic institutions post news on Facebook. Everyone posts official news on Facebook. Hobbyist discussion happens on Facebook. Buying and selling stuff - also Facebook. Wanna watch short form/long form content? Also Facebook. Facebook Messenger is also the second most popular form of communication. But it is to us what iMessage is to Americans. If you’re not on Messenger, fat chance nobody will talk to you. There’s Zalo which is technically in first place but Zalo is where the Vietnamese government gets to exert its control and it’s mostly to conduct business and talk to boomers. It’s that bad. Facebook is also very popular in other Asian countries like India, Indonesia, Thailand and the Phillipines, although I’m not sure to what degree.
Some countries insist on using Messenger and nothing else, until that changes I can’t leave.
Can’t Messanger be used without Facebook? Mine asked me if in wanted to do that before I nuked it.
Countries? Or groups of people?
Whole countries, where phone number based services like WhatsApp were not available for the longest time, when they became available it was too late and no one switched over
Because I have no choice. There are couple groups I’m part of, and they exist solely on fb. Even tried moving some of them to reddit like 5-6yrs ago, but it didnt stick. Reddit back then would’ve been better than fb… ultimately the decision was out of my hands.
Because Facebook killed enthusiast forums for most of my hobbies and everyone migrated to FB. Thats where the knowledge is.
It’s pretty good for buying/selling used stuff.
Honestly, the only thing marketplace sucks for is cars.
Ive only ever had luck selling cars on platforms that require you to pay to list. Marketplace just gets you an endless string of time wasters and people who want it for half the asking price.
Marketplace is goated and a shame it’s attached to FB
META is becoming more based each day it seems.
Calling a mega corp"based" is straight clown behaviour…
How old is u, boy?
I’m 24. I didn’t say META is based. I said it’s becoming MORE based. For example: If META was only 10% based and now it became 20% based - it’s still not based, but it became more based. Hope this better explains my perspective.
Even if we assume that Meta’s policy of loosening up grey zone speech as step in the right direction, it still doesn’t make it “more based”
Meta is a mega corpo whatever they do is always fucking plebs over and this is no exception, make no mistake.
Up until now they censored speech and I guess I were big mad, others said meta is an “ally”
Facebook then flipped the script, so now he is an ally to “you”
This a polarization divide and conquer tactic and falling for it ain’t based.
It’s kind of obvious that Zucc is doing this to be on the “winning side” (Elon’s side). I don’t think this has anything to do with “divide and conquer”.
Keep licking, they still won’t let you into their club.
HUH? Why would I want them to let me into their club and what does it even mean for someone to “get into their club”?
What does “based” mean to you?
Urban dictionary sums it up really well IMO.
A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.
For example:
META is based for open sourcing their LLM weights.
Betteridge’s Law applies here.
Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
Ha! That’s pretty good, and probably very accurate.
Until you provide an easy solution for grandparents to watch their grandkids grow up, meta will have a captive generation and a half.
Grandparents watched their kids grow up for thousands of years before social media. I think there are clearly other ways…jesus people.
Snapchat and frequently updated Frameo picture frames seems to the go-to my cousins use to keep my grandmother updated about her great-grandchildren.
Posting public images of your children certainly got an icky feeling over here. At least after there was a push in media to make parents conscious about potential privacy infringement it may be for the child.
Group chats? They’ve replaced almost everything I used to use Facebook for.
Most of my immediate family just does sms group chats. I don’t keep up with the extended family, seeing them every other holiday is enough
Meta owns WhatsApp.
True, but there are plenty of alternatives waiting in the wings the moment they try and fill it with ads
SimpleX and Matrix are great alternatives.
Friendica lets you link your Matrix account.
Can you link your WhatsApp account to these though? I’m not going around trying to persuade everyone to get off WhatsApp. I’d be better off just using RCS.
