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Because no one fing cares about your hourly updates and you're just advertising your insecurities.
Social media is 75% ads, 15% shared content (more ads), and 10% people you know creating actual posts. You're a gluten for punishment if you hang out there.
the article actually says the opposite - that it's the random nature of pushing internet algorithm-chasing influencers that pushes people away instead of it being a way to keep in touch with people you know and love.
that's the case for me and it seems like most of the people in my circle
yeah none of us care about the hourly updates. but our circle doesn't do that, we generally would only share things other people actually want to see. but it's been a long time since anyone did that. now the only sharing that happens is just Strava and in group chats
Yea, it was actually pretty great when there wasn't an algorithm forcing-feeding us bullshit. It was just us and our friends keeping in touch with each other. It was a boon for many introverts.
Now though? Why post when we know the algorithm won't show our posts to our friends unless they dig through mountains of grift, brain rot, and propaganda.
I stopped using sites like Facebook years ago when I noticed I was seeing posts from random meme pages I didn't even follow that were days old yet I hadn't seen any posts from my actual friends in days. So, went check their pages to see they had been posting daily and the algorithm just never showed them to me.
"gluten for punishment", thanks autocorrect for another genius coinage
Darn it! I'm not changing it. I shall live with my shame of not proof reading
For some, gluten could indeed be punishment.
looks with novautocrrect look of superiority
That's how I felt when I tried bluesky. I missed the boat on Twitter and it'd already gone down the shitter so I never tried it. Figured bsky would be an opportunity to try the whole tweeting thing for myself.
And even still, it was just nothing but political bitching, navel gazing, and glorified (or actual) advertising. Like... what's the point of it all? Deleted my account within the month.
Lemmy has its share of faults but at least people are willing to have actual discussions and conversations here. On bsky it felt like talking to a bot. People talking past each other instead of actually communicating.
Doesn't it depend on who you follow? The only things I see on bsky are those I follow.