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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 2 weeks ago

"... but in terms of engagement, TikTok’s competitors did pretty well by copying it. Previously social feeds filled with video made by strangers, resulting directly in the scenario described above by Mark Zuckerberg: Formerly social networks now filled with, basically, little shows and marketing, content from influencers, and random recommendation slop, an increasingly amount generated by AI."

#JohnHerrman, 2025

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/7-reasons-to-think-social-media-has-peaked.html

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#SocialMedia #SocialNetworks

Intelligencer

7 Reasons to Think Social Media Has Peaked

The platforms have big problems.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 2 weeks ago

I've commented before on how "social media" has become an umbrella term for a wide range of online experiences; web forums, social networks, social bookmarking/ link-sharing, media-sharing, even code forging (GritHub is in many ways a "social media" platform for geeks). It's become the NewSpeak phrase I suspect Web 2.0 was trying to be; a way of eliding the important differences between these different styles of interaction, so they can all be absorbalophed into centralised "portals".

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 2 weeks ago

What gets lost when all these online experiences are fudged together under the power of One Ring, is the one thing I suspect most people really want from "social" platforms. Not "content", but relationships. Either an extension of our ability to maintain in-person relationships in the fact of the tyranny of distance, or opportunities to create new ones with people we'd likely never meet in person.

If the fediverse has a future, I think it lies in serving those needs well.

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