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Anybody feel like social media is not social anymore ? (lemmy.today)

submitted 6 hours ago by flawed_human@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Everything's about creating and consuming shit or just keeping up with whatever the fuck the people we already know is doin, i miss the days when you could find a random chatroom with 4 people and be friends with three of em through shared hobbies, i doubt there's any such thing anymore but if there is feel free to suggest .

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

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Enshittification refers not just to making things crappier, but to a process in which different people benefit. iirc:

first the customer gets a lot of value and the platform loses money (bc the service is building a customer base)
then the vendors get a lot of value bc the platform privileges them (this is most obvious with amazon - maybe less on social media platforms but maybe that'd be third parties that work on that plaform?)
then the shareholders get a lot of value bc the platform squeezes every single possible penny out of the customer and the vendors.

Most major social media platforms are very far into the enshittification process, so yes they do not provide a very "social" environment to the customer. They control the feed so you can't just follow your friends, they force you to watch ads, they have ever-strict requirements to participate (one or more of: you can't just observe you have to create an account, you can't use VPNs, you must enter an email address, you must enter a phone number, you must enter a credit card, ...) etc.

The solution is either:

look for a platform that is early in the enshittification cycle (like those who went from Twitter to Bluesky) or
find a platform whose goal is to resist enshittification (like those who went from Twitter to Mastodon.)