Twitter Alternatives and Social Media Changes

[djotaku]

I've found great TTRPG accounts on both mastodon and blusky. People seem to interact more on blusky

 

[Stalker0]

Thing is with all these things going away... something we don't know about yet will be next. Forum users didn't see Facebook coming, we didn't see Twitter coming, or TikTok--and we probably won't see the next thing coming either. It might not even look like social media as we understand it. In 10 years we might be talking about some platform with a form factor that we can't even imagine right now.

Or not. Who knows!

Hopefully it will go the way of cigarettes. Everyone used to do it until mountains of evidence piled up that it was just terribly bad for you (as evidence on social media use starts to show highly negative mental consequences).

Then at some point, the campaign against social media goes out, and eventually usage drops. It’s still done but no longer socially as cool and even a big negative to a lot of people.


Hehe of course we could always get the vaping equivalent at that point

 

[djotaku]

Hopefully it will go the way of cigarettes. Everyone used to do it until mountains of evidence piled up that it was just terribly bad for you (as evidence on social media use starts to show highly negative mental consequences).

Then at some point, the campaign against social media goes out, and eventually usage drops. It’s still done but no longer socially as cool and even a big negative to a lot of people.


Hehe of course we could always get the vaping equivalent at that point

Funny thing about the reply you're replying to - forums didn't go away. We're currently having this discussion on a forum. As I've gotten older I've cared less about where "everyone" is and more about where my "tribe" is.

However, I don't think social media will ever truly die. It's pretty awesome to be able to follow people from the famous to those famous only in a small niche like D&D-related filk music. For the famous - it's a place for me to get a notification when they release something. For the niche-famous - I'm actually able to interact with them. I've had social media conversation with small and mid-sized bands, podcasters, TTRPG creators, and more. And it's been pretty awesome. Yeah, there's lots of horrible stuff out there - especially if you become someone that people end up piling onto. But my experience has been overall very positive.

 

[Kaodi]

Hopefully it will go the way of cigarettes. Everyone used to do it until mountains of evidence piled up that it was just terribly bad for you (as evidence on social media use starts to show highly negative mental consequences).

Then at some point, the campaign against social media goes out, and eventually usage drops. It’s still done but no longer socially as cool and even a big negative to a lot of people.


Hehe of course we could always get the vaping equivalent at that point

Unfortunately our celebrating the demise of nicotine may have been... premature. Enter vaping and, I think, a possible resurgence of smoking in popular culture. Not to mention I am not sure that smoking ever actually declined in some parts of the World.