it’s a weird feeling when a feature to see the same stuff that everyone else sees gets removed in favor of personalized feeds. it’s like my connection with the outside world was severed. this sucks.
Which defeats the whole point but at this point Facebook is just hanging on if it’s existing user base sucking what little value there is left out of it before it collapses from totally irrelevancy
The modern model for Facebook is as digital flypaper. Trapping users in their ecosystem on the assumption the social network and the poor tech skills, plus the highly addictive algorithm, will keep them mired in psychological quicksand until all their vital essences are harvested.
As disgusting as the site is, I still find myself peaking back in to reach out to an old friend or family member, because that’s literally the only way I have to communicate. Incredibly frustrating.
Reddit is completely compromised. Fuckin sad to see. I got Perma banned about a week ago so I suppose there’s nothing I’ll be missing out on. I hate to sound hyperbolic but the internet we once knew is gone. For a brief moment I. Human history we had almost unrestricted access to the wealth of human knowledge, paired with the ability to form niche forums accessable to everyone within our reach and we squandered it.
End of an era. Now the internet is a circlejerk fest of bots, slop, and propaganda. I migrated to Lemmy, seems like it’s starting to hit another wave of growth. I don’t see social media having the utility it once did, especially the mainstream sites.
Hell, even Google is slop nowadays. I always prided myself on my Google skills, being able to quickly find answers to whatever I needed. Now the first results are some slop pages that just spew out false information. Even with an adblocker it’s a pain to use.
So for years now I often added “reddit” to any Google search, but that lost its value too.
Yeah. Something. Like 75-80% of all content on the internet is AI generated now. Might be much worse since that figure was hit a while ago.
The internet isn’tade for humans anymore, which is ultimately something I don’t understand. Ai chat bots have taken over and we’re calling it “intelligence”.
For what? So a few rich fucks can eek out every last penny from us. If you’re human, I hope you’re well. Maybe getting off the internet is what we really need
Not like r/all was heavily skewed towards one side of content (US politics, satisfying clips, animals doing things, rage stuff).
Doesnt feel like much will be missed that can’t be had anywhere else.
even if it was skewed, I knew that it’s what everyone else was seeing. it brings a sense of community (even though it started to get overtaken by frontpage bots)
it’s a weird feeling when a feature to see the same stuff that everyone else sees gets removed in favor of personalized feeds. it’s like my connection with the outside world was severed. this sucks.
Exactly like FB changing their algorithm so you no longer see friends life updates at all and now see spam, ai slop, and ads.
Facebook has had a tab that only shows friends content for a while now
Which defeats the whole point but at this point Facebook is just hanging on if it’s existing user base sucking what little value there is left out of it before it collapses from totally irrelevancy
The modern model for Facebook is as digital flypaper. Trapping users in their ecosystem on the assumption the social network and the poor tech skills, plus the highly addictive algorithm, will keep them mired in psychological quicksand until all their vital essences are harvested.
As disgusting as the site is, I still find myself peaking back in to reach out to an old friend or family member, because that’s literally the only way I have to communicate. Incredibly frustrating.
I’m going to save this description. 🎯
The removal of all finally made me feel shitty enough on reddit that I’ve come back to give Lemmy another shot
They’re all basically converging on the same shitty business model, these aren’t intended as products for you to use they intend you to serve them
Reading this announcement felt like an April Fools’ joke.
r/all is still working for now though, but wtf.
Reddit is completely compromised. Fuckin sad to see. I got Perma banned about a week ago so I suppose there’s nothing I’ll be missing out on. I hate to sound hyperbolic but the internet we once knew is gone. For a brief moment I. Human history we had almost unrestricted access to the wealth of human knowledge, paired with the ability to form niche forums accessable to everyone within our reach and we squandered it.
End of an era. Now the internet is a circlejerk fest of bots, slop, and propaganda. I migrated to Lemmy, seems like it’s starting to hit another wave of growth. I don’t see social media having the utility it once did, especially the mainstream sites.
Hell, even Google is slop nowadays. I always prided myself on my Google skills, being able to quickly find answers to whatever I needed. Now the first results are some slop pages that just spew out false information. Even with an adblocker it’s a pain to use.
So for years now I often added “reddit” to any Google search, but that lost its value too.
Generally I should be less online anyway (:
Yeah. Something. Like 75-80% of all content on the internet is AI generated now. Might be much worse since that figure was hit a while ago.
The internet isn’tade for humans anymore, which is ultimately something I don’t understand. Ai chat bots have taken over and we’re calling it “intelligence”.
For what? So a few rich fucks can eek out every last penny from us. If you’re human, I hope you’re well. Maybe getting off the internet is what we really need
I guess we can still have small safe heavens for humans though.
Like I have a Discord server I like chatting on. And just being here on Lemmy again for a day I had more interactions than in a month on Reddit.
Not like r/all was heavily skewed towards one side of content (US politics, satisfying clips, animals doing things, rage stuff).
Doesnt feel like much will be missed that can’t be had anywhere else.
even if it was skewed, I knew that it’s what everyone else was seeing. it brings a sense of community (even though it started to get overtaken by frontpage bots)