Comment on I swear they’ve changed but I haven’t
s@piefed.world 3 weeks agoNope. I’ve deleted Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit each about 3 years ago. I will give you that Vine and TikTok have historically ticked those boxes, which is why I never had any reason to use them. Companies found that more engagement means more ad money and more sellable user data, and content that is problematic or superficial tends to provide more engagement, or bad actors intentionally poison the well of content for their own agenda. People also bring that profit-motivated content onto other sites, including sites without a profit motive. Yes, there definitely were these problems everywhere online since the beginning, but the way they breakdown our language, ways of communicating, and understanding has been manufactured to become more severe.
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see the same severity that I always have - the issue is Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Vine, Tiktok, etc are all just finally sinking into the swamp that is the internet. It’s all been under the surface, you just never participated in the real internet, and it’s starting to invade your spaces now is all.
s@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
They’re already on the internet. Well, except for Vine since that site has been toast for a while now.
What does that even mean?
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re on the tippy top of the internet iceberg. All of the corporate-facing shit.
DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You talk so edgy and then post a basic 4chan-ass iceberg with a youtube video more than halfway down. I’m so glad I don’t feel the need to posture like this anymore, it comes across very 7th-grader discovering gore on the internet. OoOoOo sPoOkY!!1!
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Seeing normie shit most of the way down that picture, KingCobra that far down? Get outta here with that