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The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (ca.pcmag.com)
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[โ€“] CaffeinatedCubits@programming.dev 61 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Dude they filled my timeline with a bunch of ads and AI generated nonsense. We stopped posting because no one ever saw it thanks to all of the filler.

[โ€“] Joelk111@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

For me, it's the death of the chronological view. That's when I stopped using social media. I'd see random, irrelevant stuff from weeks ago instead of what my friends were up to today.