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.

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.

  • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    1 year ago

    The absence of a running karma total is a surprisingly powerful difference. I do still look back at old posts, and it’s nice when there’s votes, but without the little number next to a name or when I mouse-over a profile, there’s no motivation to be the first in a thread to repost a cliche joke or to ragebait for fake internet points.

    • RagnarokOnline@reddthat.comEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      I think the “not having to be first” is what is so powerful.

      I know that if I comment on a post from a few days ago on a populated community, I’ll likely at least get a reply from OP, if not a bunch of other people finding my comment and replying as well.

      It’s like Lemmy is the nice, small-town version of Reddit (which is probably more similar to Gary Indiana).

    • EezyvilleEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I hated most of those cliche jokes. Here I am looking for real conversation only to be met with thousands of not witty low effort jokes.

        • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          There used to be a bot rating bot on reddit that used those comments to see which bots where actually good. It was useful. I’m hoping someone will make the same on lemmy and go back retroactively to index old comments.

        • EezyvilleEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think that on some bots it is meant as feedback on its performance but to have 10 users give the same feedback is kinda annoying. Maybe Lemmy can have a feature were humans can approve/disapprove bot performance that doesn’t involve upvote/downvote. It would only be available to bot accounts in the site’s UI. Could possibly expand it’s functionality to something more useful. Or just use the voting system because it’s already in place.