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[-] vegetvs@kbin.earth 104 points 6 days ago

Yes, his offerings of "social media" are over. And that's great.

[-] auginator@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago

Has been over for a while. Unless you call ads social media. It’s all ads.

[-] el_puercoespin@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago

Right. They got greedy and made it more shitty for profit. Users left and now its one of these free weekly papers with ads and classified ads. Now they are considering filling the gap of missing user content with AI so it will be a circular system without humans at one point.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 54 points 6 days ago
[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 61 points 6 days ago

An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I'll pass

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago

He should know, he fucking killed it

[-] crowbar@piefed.social 61 points 6 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg Says For-Profit Social Media Is Over

ftfy

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 25 points 6 days ago

Exactly this. "We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability."

Why can't anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.

[-] ibelieveinthehousehippo@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

Large corporations buy up disruptive companies like that

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Love that "disruptive" is a valid term for companies like that.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 6 days ago

Because modest returns don't attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).

Yeah, if I was Zuck, I would've left it more or less as it was in the 2010s, and then moved on to making adjunct services to create a Google/Yahoo-like ecosystem. Oh, and open the API so interesting services could be built on it. Instead, they maximized profitability and bought their way to an ecosystem.

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[-] TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 48 points 6 days ago

"Social media is dead, and we killed it."

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"

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[-] bender223@lemmy.today 14 points 5 days ago

It's shitty ass hats like zuck that makes me appreciate Lemmy even more. Its the right amount of social media for me.

[-] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Did zuck say anything relevant to the market in the past 10+years?

It's a provocation but I'm also kinda curious, with the level of information and consulting he has access to he must be choosing the topics he is relevant about?

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friends' OC (not reshared garbage).

It's about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I'd take it.

[-] gruvn@lemm.ee 35 points 6 days ago

So... original, unshittified Facebook?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago

I'm amazed that's not what FB still is. I apparently bailed before the worst of it because I don't recall seeing random people's posts on my feed.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

Last time I logged into Facebook I noticed a lot of the recommends included feeds of attractive women. I mean, I like women with gyatts, butt clearly their algos have been fine tuned on what kind of content they serve: sexual content and alt-right garbage

I miss the good old days when it was just updates from friends.

[-] josefo@leminal.space 3 points 5 days ago

I wonder if a fediverse version of that would resonate with any of my friends and family. Seems like we are where we started with forums, just strangers respectfully taking about their common interests. Social media is indeed dead.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

Too late for that. We have TikTok now. Everyone needs a new dopamine hit every 3 seconds and god forbid you run out of new things in your feed.

The era of social media IS over. Even if you make a good one.

[-] J52@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago

check out the Fediverse...

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

I'm here. Ain't no billions of people rushing to join us.

[-] J52@lemmy.nz 7 points 6 days ago

Not necessarily a bad thing.

[-] bender223@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

Agree. Lemmy doesn't need to have as many users as other platforms to be good.

If ppl can't understand what's so good about Lemmy then they are just suckers who deserve to be taken advantage of by corporations.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

You actually can nearly do that. Facebook inexplicably showed me how a few weeks ago. If a friend reshares something, you'll see it, but it removes all groups, etc. It was stunning how little content actually comes from friends.

On the Facebook site (I'm sure it can be done via app, too, but I didn't look), click on the menu near the top right, then click Feeds (under Social). Then click on Friends on the left.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 17 points 5 days ago

Good. Social media was only ever the corporate commodified communications platforms.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 6 days ago

I would probably think that too if I ran Facebook.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So he's trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.

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[-] O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 12 points 5 days ago

Bye guys, guess none of us are really here

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I think, therefore I am.

[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.

"your honor, in my defense my website sucks. like really sucks. like try using it for a good purpose. it is inherently evil."

[-] J52@lemmy.nz 12 points 6 days ago

Hahaha, not a fast learner... Own it bro, FB is over...

[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Thought this was a press release thing... Like: Social media is dead... Now it's "Meta-media" dabs as crowd collectively faints

[-] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mark.

[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

Has been for a while. If you look at most recent marketing analysis, numbers weren’t like they were peak pandemic and 2016. It was declining since then, you just chilling with bots mostly.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

After the android downloads all the data on the Internet, like a dalek.

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