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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 157 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

They tried warning us about fb over 10 years ago and nothing happened

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

nothing happened

Nah, the perpetrators continues to make endless money, etc. Lots of capitalist stuff has been happening.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Then literally Web 2.0 is the problem. All social media stops existing if we go back from Web 2.0.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

social media just needs http requests to exist, how does pre web 2.0 fix things honestly. gui apps have existed since windows 95 or even earlier, how is the tiktok app technically different than the space cadet paddle game with added network functionality?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Just go back to gopher.

back then it wasn't about political independence from the US.

the EU has made a lot of noise in the last 2 weeks about getting off of US platforms. Here's a few examples:

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060

https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/

There's many more. The movement is significant.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say nothing happened. Young people migrated off of it and it's now the lead gasoline of the social media world

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 56 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but young people didn’t migrate off it because it was harmful

They migrated in part to instagram which Facebook bought and made even more harmful than Facebook itself

[–] FilipDaFlippa@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah ig is the worst part of Facebook, just people curating what they want people to think their life looks like

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

This is in stark contrast to... Facebook???

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

facebook has a very different target audience

facebook is mostly about 60+ year olds holding their beer and saying sth like "beer, car, church is all we need" while instagram is predatory on 16-y.o girls telling them that they're not pretty and worthy of love if they're not significantly (scarily, in fact) underweight and wear lots of makeup to cover their true emotions/face.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

^ liberal "science" on social media.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

That’s not how fb started

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

At least Facebook has Facebook Marketplace.