• pungunner@feddit.deEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      While I never used tiktok: why FB and not TikTok? Or did it get so much worse since I stopped using it 10 years ago?

      Edit fb is terrible because boomers hunt for you there and the “everyone’s life is so fucking perfect” thing makes you depressive. Especially because it mostly shows you people you know in Reallife. But since everyone started sharing TikTok shit I have a feeling that it is:

      • a social media, so everyone tries to be something they are not.
      • the short content kills your attention span.
      • the content makes you measurably more stupid (fucking YouTube shorts are the same)
      • the algorithm get’s even more data, because it measures how you react to stuff and not only what you and others share
      • controlled by the CCP, so I suspect some agenda (look up what TikTok is like in china, it is effectively another program (interesting and educational stuff mixed with chinese propaganda))
      • still growing while fb is officially growing but like more and more people I know stopped using it. Could be bubble, could be that new markets are opening and some regions are declining, could be active users leaving but bots are being counted.

      But that is just my opinion man…

    • Kalkaline @lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Terrible company and interface, some pockets of good community and conversation though.

  • nonearther@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    App? TikTok which is literally a spyware.

    Platform? Tie between Facebook and TikTok

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Can we refuse to call it that? Still call it Twitter, it must not get inside minds

      • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I like calling it that. Whatever good Twitter had is dead imo. X is what it is.

      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I’ve always wondered why anyone ever started using that platform. They literally steal your address book from your computer (looking at you, Windows users) and email everyone you’ve ever had contact with claiming that this user intentionally sent you an email to join linkedin. I used to reply to everyone who sent me the spam, and none of them had any idea linkedin was doing that.

  • HSL@wayfarershaven.euEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    This is turning into a cesspit of toxicity rather than a discussion. This doesn’t necessarily break a rule but I can’t see how it’s helpful beyond letting people vent negativity.

    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I want to start a new discussion. “Which category would you like to sell your item in?” …wtf?

      I want to give something away for free. “You cannot sell an item without including a picture.” It’s a fucking pile of scrap lumber.

    • richdotward@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Is that still even running? Tried it years ago, my area was dead and just full of ads. Very surprised when they actually sent me a letter through the post too …

  • lohrun@fediverse.booEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Hot take but all of the Lemmy/kbin apps. Instead of focusing dev time and resources on one or two open source apps we instead have a dozen half-baked pre-alpha apps. Lately it seems like I can’t go a day without seeing a post for a new Lemmy UI.

      • lohrun@fediverse.booEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve tried Voyager and Memmy… I also know there are like a dozen others. My point still stands, we have too many devs spread out trying to make their own app/UI instead of us coming together to make one or two really good ones

  • borlax@lemmy.borlax.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    They are all miserable and incentivize embellishment for the sake of affirmations from people we don’t actually know that well. If we did have real relationships with these people we would probably be communicating offline and any accomplishments would be shared on a more personal level. Instead we just mass blast posts into the universe in an attempt to get fake internet points…