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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Uranium3006@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

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[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Big shock considering everything we post online is being weaponized in various ways.

[–] gullible@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this conversation is had nearly daily here, but by fuck am I glad that the fediverse is so much less astroturfed than every other social media site.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

we need to work on keeping it that way. we have the advantage with no corporations to silently manipulate us and we own the infrastructure, but we still gotta root out bot accounts and malicious instances

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

feds, bots and shills