So where are we all supposed to go now?

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Content source

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon

An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore.

You could argue, I suppose, that this is just the natural end of a specific part of the internet. We spent the last two decades answering a question — what would happen if you put everyone on the planet into a room and let them all talk to each other? — and now we’re moving onto the next one. It might be better this way. But the way it has all changed, and the speed with which it has happened, has left an everybody-sized hole in the internet. For all these years, we all hung out together on the internet. And now that’s just gone.

So where are we all supposed to go now?

Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.

www.theverge.com

 

[enaph]

Outside. We all should go outside and meet other people in real life.

 

[TairikuOkami]

At first we could not meet in person for years, not even families, so we clung on to social networks and alienated each other with our opinions and now we just can not go back.
Social networks are falling, because they censor everything and people can not say anything without offending someone or risking being jailed, it is really hard time being online.
I am afraid that with AI and robots taking our jobs, home office, internet being controlled by the governments, we are going to spent the time home alone with VR and Elon's chips.

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

Hello.... Web3 here... try Mastodon or a couple of thousand other versions of decentralised social media. Heck, for 20 bucks, start your own, and you never have to give anyone your personal details or worry about the Zuck's of the World again.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

The smart people will stay off social media.

 

[codswollip]

Bring back NNTP text communities. Flush "social" media.

 

[Aleeyen]

Not to forget we have our own MT.